Romanos 15

1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up. 3 For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."✝15:3 Psalms 69:9 4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. 5 Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus, 6 that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

7 Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you,*15:7 TR reads "us" instead of "you" to the glory of God. 8 Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers, 9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,

"Therefore I will give praise to you among the Gentiles

and sing to your name."✝15:9 2 Samuel 22:50; Psalms 18:49

10 Again he says,

"Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people."✝15:10 Deuteronomy 32:43

11 Again,

"Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles!

Let all the peoples praise him."✝15:11 Psalms 117:1

12 Again, Isaiah says,

"There will be the root of Jesse,

he who arises to rule over the Gentiles;

in him the Gentiles will hope."✝15:12 Isaiah 11:10

13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

14 I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers,*15:14 The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings." that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others. 15 But I write the more boldly to you in part as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God, 16 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. 17 I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God. 18 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, 19 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; 20 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. 21 But, as it is written,

"They will see, to whom no news of him came.

They who haven’t heard will understand."✝15:21 Isaiah 52:15

22 Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you, 23 but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you, 24 whenever I travel to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while. 25 But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints. 26 For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem. 27 Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in material things. 28 When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain. 29 I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Christ.

30 Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me, 31 that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, 32 that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest. 33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Kia Āhuareka ētahi atu i a Koe, Kaua ko Koe anō

1 Ko te mahi tika mā tātou, mā te hunga kaha, he pīkau i ngā ngoikoretanga o te hunga kaha kore; kaua hoki e whai i tā tātou ake i āhuareka ai. 2 Me whai tēnā, tēnā o tātou kia āhuareka mai tōna hoa, tōna hoa mō te mea e pai ana hei hanga i tōna whakapono. 3 Kīhai hoki a te Karaiti i whai ki tāna ake i āhuareka ai; engari, i rite ki te mea kua oti te tuhituhi, "Ko ngā tāwainga a te hunga e tāwai ana i a koe kua tau ki ahau." 4 Ko ngā mea katoa hoki i tuhituhia i mua he mea tuhituhi hei whakaako i a tātou, kia whai tūmanakohanga ai tātou, i te mea ka whakamanawanui ka whakamārietia hoki e ngā karaipiture.

5 Heoi, mā te Atua o te manawanui, o te whakamārie, e hoatu ki a koutou kia kotahi te whakaaro o tētahi ki tētahi, kia rite ki tā Karaiti Īhu; 6 kia kotahi ai te whakaaro, kia kotahi ai te māngai, e whakakorōria ai koutou i te Atua, arā i te Matua o tō tātou Ariki, o Īhu Karaiti.

Te Rongopai ki ngā Tauiwi

7 Nā, me whakahoa koutou tētahi ki tētahi, kia rite ki a te Karaiti i mea nei i a tātou hei hoa mōna, kia whai korōria ai te Atua. 8 Ko tāku kupu hoki tēnei, i meinga a te Karaiti hei minita ki te kotinga, he whakaaro ki te pono o te Atua, kia ū ai ngā mea i whakaaria ki ngā mātua. 9 Kia whakakorōria ai hoki ngā tauiwi i te Atua mō tāna mahi tohu, kia pērā ai me te mea i tuhituhia:

"Mō konei ka whakawhetai ahau ki a koe i waenganui o ngā tauiwi,

ka hīmene ki tōu ingoa."

10 Tēnei anō tētahi kupu ana,

"Kia hari tahi, e ngā tauiwi, me tāna iwi."

11 Tēnei anō hoki,

"Whakamoemititia te Ariki, e ngā tauiwi katoa;

whakamoemititia anō ia, e ngā iwi katoa."

12 E mea ana hoki a Ihāia,

"Tērā e whai pakiaka a Hehe,

me tētahi e whakatika ake ana hei rangatira mō ngā tauiwi;

ko ia hei tūmanakohanga mā ngā tauiwi."

13 Nā, mā te Atua, nāna nei te tūmanako, e whakakī koutou ki te hari katoa, ki te rangimārie, i runga i te whakapono, kia hua ai tō koutou tūmanako, i runga i te kaha o te Wairua Tapu.

Te Take o Pāora e Tuhituhi Mārakerake nei

14 Nā, e ū ana tōku ake whakaaro ki a koutou, e ōku tēina, e kī ana koutou i te pai, whawhao rawa ki te mātauranga katoa, ā, e taea anō e koutou te tohutohu tētahi i tētahi. 15 Otiia, i nui ake ai tōku māia ki te tuhituhi pēnei ki a koutou, e ōku tēina, he whakamahara anō i a koutou, he mea nā te aroha noa kua hōmai nei ki ahau e te Atua. 16 I meinga ai ahau hei minita mā Īhu Karaiti ki ngā tauiwi, hei minita i te rongopai o te Atua, kia manakohia ai te whakahere o ngā tauiwi, he mea whakatapu nā te Wairua Tapu.

17 Nā, kua whai whakamanamanatanga nei ahau i roto i a Karaiti Īhu i ngā mea a te Atua. 18 E kore hoki ahau e māia ki te kōrero ki ētahi mea, ko ngā mea anake kua mahia e te Karaiti nā roto i ahau, hei mea kia ngohengohe mai ngā tauiwi, arā, nā tāku kupu, nā tāku mahi, 19 i runga i te kaha o ngā tohu, o ngā mea whakamīharo, i runga i te kaha o te Wairua Tapu; nō ka whakapaua e ahau te kauwhau i te rongopai o te Karaiti atu i Hiruhārama, ā taka noa, ki Iririkuma rawa. 20 Āe rā, ko ia tēnei tāku tohe ki te kauwhau i te rongopai, ehara i te mea ki ngā wāhi kua whakahuatia nei a te Karaiti ki reira, kei hanga whare ahau ki runga ki a tētahi atu tūranga. 21 Engari, kia rite ki te mea i tuhituhia:

"E kite te hunga kīhai nei i kōrerotia ia ki a rātou, ā,

e mātau te hunga kīhai i rongo."

Tā Pāora Whakaaro ki te Toro ki Rōma

22 Nā, konei anō i maha ai ōku whakawarenga, te tae atu ai ahau ki a koutou. 23 Otiia ināianei, kua kore nei he wāhi mōku i ēnei whenua, ā, i te mea he maha ngā tau i wawata ai ahau kia tae atu ki a koutou, 24 ina tūpono tāku haere ki Hipania. E tūmanako ana hoki ahau kia kite i a koutou i taua haerenga ōku, ā, kia kawea pērātia atu ahau e koutou, ina anō ia kia mātua rite tētahi wāhi o tōku ngākau i te kitenga i a koutou. 25 Ināianei ia, e mea ana ahau, e haere ana tēnei ahau ki Hiruhārama, ki te mahi mea mā te hunga tapu. 26 Kua pai hoki a Makeronia rāua ko Akāia kia meinga tētahi kohikohi mā ngā mea rawakore o te hunga tapu i Hiruhārama. 27 Āe rā, i pai anō rātou ki te pērā, ā, e tika ana anō kia hoatu ki a rātou. I te mea kua uru nei ngā tauiwi ki ā rātou mea o te wairua, waihoki he tika anō kia mahia e ēnei ētahi mea o te kikokiko mā rātou. 28 Nā, kia oti tēnei i ahau, ā, hīri rawa tēnei hua hei mea mā rātou, ka tika atu ahau mā koutou nā ki Hipania. 29 Ā, e mātau ana ahau, ka haere atu ahau ki a koutou, tērā ahau e haere atu i runga i te hua noa iho o te manaakitanga o te rongopai o te Karaiti.

30 Nā, he tohe tēnei nāku ki a koutou, e ōku tēina, he whakaaro ki tō tātou Ariki, ki a Īhu Karaiti, nā te aroha hoki o te Wairua, kia tohe tahi koutou me ahau i ā koutou īnoi ki te Atua mōku; 31 kia whakaorangia ahau i te hunga whakateka i Hūria; kia manakohia anō e te hunga tapu tāku minitatanga mō Hiruhārama; 32 kia haere hari atu ai ahau ki a koutou, ki te pai te Atua, kia whakatā tahi ai me koutou. 33 Nā, kia noho te Atua o te rangimārie ki a koutou katoa. Āmine.