8. First, I give thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed in the whole world.
9. For God, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, is my witness, how constantly I make mention of you,
10. always asking in my prayers if somehow now at last I may succeed to come to you in the will of God.
11. For I desire to see you, in order that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, in order to strengthen you,
12. that is, to be encouraged together with you through our mutual faith, both yours and mine.
13. Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that often I intended to come to you, and was prevented until now, in order that I might have some fruit among you also, just as also among the rest of the Gentiles.
14. I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
15. Thus I am eager to proclaim the gospel also to you who are in Rome.