Romans 15:20

while I was careful not to preach where the name of Messiah had been invoked, lest I should build upon another man's foundation;

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man’s foundation:

In Context

19by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem I have made a circuit quite to Illyricum, and have fulfilled the announcement of the Messiah;

21but, it is written: They, to whom mention of him had not been made, will see him; and they, who had not heard, will be obedient.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 3:9For we labor with God: and ye are God's husbandry, and God's edifice.

Ephesians 2:20And ye are built upon the foundations of the legates and the prophets; and Jesus the Messiah hath become the head of the corner in the edifice.

Matthew Henry on Romans 15:18-22

The Apostle's Labours. ( a. d. 58.) 17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. 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, 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. 20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was… Read the whole commentary →

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