Romans 1:9-16

9For 1God 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 2God 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.

14I am a debtor both to Greeks and barbarians, both to wise and unintelligent:

15so, as far as depends on me, am I ready to announce the glad tidings to you also who [are] in Rome.

16For I am not ashamed of the glad tidings; for it is 3God's power to salvation, to every one that believes, both to Jew first and to Greek: