¹⁵ For which reason I have the desire, as far as I am able, to give the knowledge of the good news to you who are in Rome.

¹⁸ But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name;

¹² For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.

¹⁷ But if I do it gladly, I have a reward; and if not, I am under orders to do it.

²⁰ Making it my purpose not to take the good news where Christ was named, so that my work might not be resting on that of others;

¹⁸ As far as it is possible for you be at peace with all men.

¹³ Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

³⁴ Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.

⁸ She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place.

³⁸ Make prayer, then, to the Lord of the grain-fields, that he may send out workers to get in his grain.

⁸ And the voice of the Lord came to my ears, saying, Whom am I to send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me.

¹⁵ Not taking credit to ourselves for what is not our business, that is, for the work of others; but having hope that, with the growth of your faith, we may get the credit for an increase which is the effect of our work,

¹⁶ So that we may be able to go on and take the good news to countries still farther away than you are, and not take credit for another man's work in making things ready to our hand.