12. that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by one another’s faith, yours and mine.
13. I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, though I was prevented until now, that I might harvest some fruit among you, too, as among the rest of the Gentiles.
14. To Greeks and non-Greeks alike, to the wise and the ignorant, I am under obligation;
15. that is why I am eager to preach the gospel also to you in Rome.
16. For I am not ashamed of the gospel. It is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: for Jew first, and then Greek.
17. For in it is revealed the righteousness of God from faith to faith; as it is written, “The one who is righteous by faith will live.”