The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
ROM 15:17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in
those things which pertain to God.
ROM 15:18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which
Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word
and deed,
ROM 15:19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit
of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have
fully preached the gospel of Christ.
ROM 15:20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ
was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:
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