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# Romans 15

Romans 15 is chapter 15 of 16 in the Letter to the Romans. Here are all 33 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> He exhorts them to be all of one mind and promises to come and see them.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Romans 15 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. But we who are stronger must bear with the feebleness of the weak, and not so as to please ourselves.
2. Each one of you should please his neighbor unto good, for edification.
3. For even Christ did not please himself, but as it was written: “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell upon me.”
4. For whatever was written, was written to teach us, so that, through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
5. So may the God of patience and solace grant you to be of one mind toward one another, in accord with Jesus Christ,
6. so that, together with one mouth, you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
7. For this reason, accept one another, just as Christ also has accepted you, in the honor of God.
8. For I declare that Christ Jesus was the minister of circumcision because of the truth of God, so as to confirm the promises to the fathers,
9. and that the Gentiles are to honor God because of his mercy, just as it was written: “Because of this, I will confess you among the Gentiles, O Lord, and I will sing to your name.”
10. And again, he says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, along with his people.”
11. And again: “All Gentiles, praise the Lord; and all peoples, magnify him.”
12. And again, Isaiah says: “There shall be a root of Jesse, and he shall rise up to rule the Gentiles, and in him the Gentiles shall hope.”
13. So may the God of hope fill you with every joy and with peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope and in the virtue of the Holy Spirit.
14. But I am also certain about you, my brothers, that you also have been filled with love, completed with all knowledge, so that you are able to admonish one another.
15. But I have written to you, brothers, more boldly than to the others, as if calling you to mind again, because of the grace which has been given to me from God,
16. so that I may be a minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles, sanctifying the Gospel of God, in order that the oblation of the Gentiles may be made acceptable and may be sanctified in the Holy Spirit.
17. Therefore, I have glory in Christ Jesus before God.
18. So I dare not speak of any of those things which Christ does not effect through me, unto the obedience of the Gentiles, in word and deed,
19. with the power of signs and wonders, by power of the Holy Spirit. For in this way, from Jerusalem, throughout its surroundings, as far as Illyricum, I have replenished the Gospel of Christ.
20. And so I have preached this Gospel, not where Christ was known by name, lest I build upon the foundation of another,
21. but just as it was written: “Those to whom he was not announced shall perceive, and those who have not heard shall understand.”
22. Because of this also, I was greatly hindered in coming to you, and I have been prevented until the present time.
23. Yet truly now, having no other destination in these regions, and having already had a great desire to come to you over the past many years,
24. when I begin to set out on my journey to Spain, I hope that, as I pass by, I may see you, and I may be guided from there by you, after first having borne some fruit among you.
25. But next I will set out for Jerusalem, to minister to the saints.
26. For those of Macedonia and Achaia have decided to make a collection for those of the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.
27. And this has pleased them, because they are in their debt. For, since the Gentiles have become partakers of their spiritual things, they also ought to minister to them in worldly things.
28. Therefore, when I have completed this task, and have consigned to them this fruit, I shall set out, by way of you, to Spain.
29. And I know that when I come to you I shall arrive with an abundance of the blessings of the Gospel of Christ.
30. Therefore, I beg you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Holy Spirit, that you assist me with your prayers to God on my behalf,
31. so that I may be freed from the unfaithful who are in Judea, and so that the oblation of my service may be acceptable to the saints in Jerusalem.
32. So may I come to you with joy, through the will of God, and so may I be refreshed with you.
33. And may the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

## Romans 15 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Debemus autem nos firmiores imbecillitates infirmorum sustinere, et non nobis placere.
2. Unusquisque vestrum proximo suo placeat in bonum, ad ædificationem.
3. Etenim Christus non sibi placuit, sed sicut scriptum est: Improperia improperantium tibi ceciderunt super me.
4. Quæcumque enim scripta sunt, ad nostram doctrinam scripta sunt: ut per patientiam, et consolationem Scripturarum, spem habeamus.
5. Deus autem patientiæ et solatii det vobis idipsum sapere in alterutrum secundum Jesum Christum:
6. ut unanimes, uno ore honorificetis Deum et patrem Domini nostri Jesu Christi.
7. Propter quod suscipite invicem, sicut et Christus suscepit vos in honorem Dei.
8. Dico enim Christum Jesum ministrum fuisse circumcisionis propter veritatem Dei, ad confirmandas promissiones patrum:
9. gentes autem super misericordia honorare Deum, sicut scriptum est: Propterea confitebor tibi in gentibus, Domine, et nomini tuo cantabo.
10. Et iterum dicit: Lætamini gentes cum plebe ejus.
11. Et iterum: Laudate omnes gentes Dominum: et magnificate eum omnes populi.
12. Et rursus Isaias ait: Erit radix Jesse, et qui exsurget regere gentes, in eum gentes sperabunt.
13. Deus autem spei repleat vos omni gaudio, et pace in credendo: ut abundetis in spe, et virtute Spiritus Sancti.
14. Certus sum autem fratres mei et ego ipse de vobis, quoniam et ipsi pleni estis dilectione, repleti omni scientia, ita ut possitis alterutrum monere.
15. Audacius autem scripsi vobis fratres ex parte, tamquam in memoriam vos reducens: propter gratiam, quæ data est mihi a Deo,
16. ut sim minister Christi Jesu in gentibus: sanctificans Evangelium Dei, ut fiat oblatio gentium accepta, et sanctificata in Spiritu Sancto.
17. Habeo igitur gloriam in Christo Jesu ad Deum.
18. Non enim audeo aliquid loqui eorum, quæ per me non efficit Christus in obedientiam gentium, verbo et factis:
19. in virtute signorum, et prodigiorum, in virtute Spiritus Sancti: ita ut ab Jerusalem per circuitum usque ad Illyricum repleverim Evangelium Christi.
20. Sic autem prædicavi Evangelium hoc, non ubi nominatus est Christus, ne super alienum fundamentum ædificarem:
21. sed sicut scriptum est: Quibus non est annuntiatum de eo, videbunt: et qui non audierunt, intelligent.
22. Propter quod et impediebar plurimum venire ad vos, et prohibitus sum usque adhuc.
23. Nunc vero ulterius locum non habens in his regionibus, cupiditatem autem habens veniendi ad vos ex multis jam præcedentibus annis:
24. cum in Hispaniam proficisci cœpero, spero quod præteriens videam vos, et a vobis deducar illuc, si vobis primum ex parte fruitus fuero.
25. Nunc igitur proficiscar in Jerusalem ministrare sanctis.
26. Probaverunt enim Macedonia et Achaia collationem aliquam facere in pauperes sanctorum, qui sunt in Jerusalem.
27. Placuit enim eis: et debitores sunt eorum. Nam si spiritualium eorum participes facti sunt gentiles, debent et in carnalibus ministrare illis.
28. Hoc igitur cum consummavero, et assignavero eis fructum hunc, per vos proficiscar in Hispaniam.
29. Scio autem quoniam veniens ad vos, in abundantia benedictionis Evangelii Christi veniam.
30. Obsecro ergo vos fratres per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum, et per caritatem Sancti Spiritus, ut adjuvetis me in orationibus vestris pro me ad Deum,
31. ut liberer ab infidelibus, qui sunt in Judæa, et obsequii mei oblatio accepta fiat in Jerusalem sanctis,
32. ut veniam ad vos in gaudio per voluntatem Dei, et refrigerer vobiscum.
33. Deus autem pacis sit cum omnibus vobis. Amen.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2627: Blessing and Adoration ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 146: The Obedience of Faith ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 162: The Characteristics of Faith ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2657: At the Wellsprings of Prayer ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1070: The Celebration of the Christian Mystery ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 693: The Name, Titles, and Symbols of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2629: Prayer of Petition ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Reading the Holy Scriptures confers two benefits: it trains the mind to understand them, and it turns man's attention from the follies of the world and leads him to the love of God.” — St. Isidore of Seville, Sentences, III.8, c. 620 (On this theme: verse 4)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 8: That is, executed his office and ministry towards the Jews, the people of the circumcision.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Fri, Nov 5, 2027 (computed): Friday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Romans 15:14-21
- Sun, Dec 10, 2028 (computed): Second Sunday of Advent — Second Reading, Romans 15:4-9

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).