Romans 1:7-13

7to all that are in Rome, beloved of 1God, called saints: Grace to you and peace from 2God our Father and [our] Lord Jesus Christ.

8First, I thank my 3God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world.

9For 4God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the glad tidings of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,

10always beseeching at my prayers, if any way now at least I may be prospered by the will of 5God to come to you.

11For I greatly desire to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to establish you;

12that is, to have mutual comfort among you, each by the faith [which is] in the other, both yours and mine.

13But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that I often proposed to come to you, (and have been hindered until the present time,) that I might have some fruit among you too, even as among the other nations also.