[1:8] First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
[1:9] For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you
[1:10] always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God’s will I may now at last succeed in coming to you.
[1:11] For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you—
[1:12] that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.
[1:13] I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
[1:14] I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
[1:15] So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.