Romans 1:8-15
8First, aI thank my God through Jesus Christ 1for you all, because byour faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world. 9For aGod, whom I bserve in my spirit in the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how without ceasing cI make mention of you, 10always in my prayers earnestly asking, if perhaps now at last by athe will of God I may succeed in coming to you. 11For aI long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be strengthened; 12that is, to be mutually encouraged, while among you, by each other’s faith, both yours and mine. 13aI do not want you to be unaware, bbrothers, that often I chave planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may have some dfruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles. 14aI am 1under obligation both to Greeks and to bbarbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. 15In this way, for my part, I am eager to aproclaim the gospel to you also who are in Rome.