Paul’s Desire to Visit Rome

⁸ First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. ⁹ For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing, I mention you always in my prayers, ¹⁰ making request if, by any means, now at last I might find a way in the will of God to come to you.

¹¹ For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be strengthened. ¹² This is so that I may be encouraged together with you by each other’s faith, both yours and mine. ¹³ Now I would not have you unaware, brothers, that I often intended to come to you (but was prevented until now), that I might have a harvest among you also, even as among the other Gentiles.

¹⁴ I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise. ¹⁵ So, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.