17So I have pride in Christ Jesus in the things which are God's.
18And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,
19By signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have given all the good news of Christ;
20Making 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;
21But as it is said in the holy Writings, They will see, to whom the news of him had not been given, and those to whose ears it had not come will have knowledge.
22For which reason I was frequently kept from coming to you:
23But now, having no longer any place in these parts and having had for a number of years a great desire to come to you,