📜WEB · Romans 15:17

What does Romans 15:17 mean?

"I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God."

— Romans 15:17 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

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But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

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that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

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I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

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For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

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in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

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yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.

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