5. Through him God gave me the privilege of being an apostle for the sake of Christ, in order to lead people of all nations to believe and obey.
6. This also includes you who are in Rome, whom God has called to belong to Jesus Christ.
7. And so I write to all of you in Rome whom God loves and has called to be his own people:May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.
8. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because the whole world is hearing about your faith.
9. God is my witness that what I say is true — the God whom I serve with all my heart by preaching the Good News about his Son. God knows that I remember you
10. every time I pray. I ask that God in his good will may at last make it possible for me to visit you now.
11. For I want very much to see you, in order to share a spiritual blessing with you to make you strong.
12. What I mean is that both you and I will be helped at the same time, you by my faith and I by yours.
13. You must remember, my brothers and sisters, that many times I have planned to visit you, but something has always kept me from doing so. I want to win converts among you also, as I have among other Gentiles.
14. For I have an obligation to all peoples, to the civilized and to the savage, to the educated and to the ignorant.
15. So then, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who live in Rome.
16. I have complete confidence in the gospel; it is God's power to save all who believe, first the Jews and also the Gentiles.