27 [a]For it hath pleased them, and their debtors are they: (A)for if the Gentiles be made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to [b]minister unto them in carnal things.

28 When I have therefore performed this, and have [c]sealed them this [d]fruit, I will pass by you into Spain.

29 [e]And I know when I come, that I shall come to you with abundance of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 15:27 Alms are voluntary, but yet such as we owe by the law of charity.
  2. Romans 15:27 To serve the turns.
  3. Romans 15:28 Performed it faithfully, and sealed it as it were with my ring.
  4. Romans 15:28 This money which was gathered for the use of the poor: which alms is very fitly called fruit.
  5. Romans 15:29 He promiseth them through the blessing of God, not to come empty unto them: and requiring of them the duty of prayers, he showeth what thing we ought chiefly to rest upon in all difficulties and adversities.

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