8. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because the news of your faith is being reported in all the world.
9. For God, whom I serve with my spirit in telling the good news about His Son, is my witness that I constantly mention you,
10. always asking in my prayers that if it is somehow in God’s will, I may now at last succeed in coming to you.
11. For I want very much to see you, so I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,
12. that is, to be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.
13. Now I want you to know, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but was prevented until now ) in order that I might have a fruitful ministry among you, just as among the rest of the Gentiles.
14. I am obligated both to Greeks and barbarians, both to the wise and the foolish.
15. So I am eager to preach the good news to you also who are in Rome.
16. For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.