[a]First I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is [b]published throughout the [c]whole world.

For God is my witness (whom I serve in my [d]spirit in the [e]Gospel of his Son) that without ceasing I make mention of you.

10 Always in my prayers, beseeching that by some means, one time or other I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God, to come unto you.

11 For I long to see you, that I might bestow among you some spiritual gift, that you might be strengthened:

12 That is, that [f]I might be comforted together with you, through our mutual faith, both yours and mine.

13 Now my brethren, I would that ye should not be ignorant, how that I have oftentimes purposed to come unto you (but have been let hitherto) that I might have some fruit also among you, as I have among the other Gentiles.

14 I am debtor both to the Grecians, and to the Barbarians, both to the wise men and to the unwise.

15 Therefore, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the Gospel to you also that are at [g]Rome.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 1:8 He procureth their favorable patience, in that he reckoneth up their true commendation, and his true Apostolic good will toward them, confirmed by taking God himself to witness.
  2. Romans 1:8 Because your faith is such, that it is commended in all Churches.
  3. Romans 1:8 In all Churches.
  4. Romans 1:9 Very willingly and with all my heart.
  5. Romans 1:9 In preaching his Son.
  6. Romans 1:12 Though Paul were never so excellent, yet by teaching the Church, he might be instructed by it.
  7. Romans 1:15 He meaneth all them that dwelt in Rome, though some of them were not Romans, see the end of the epistle.

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