Romans 1:7-13

7to all who are 1beloved of God in Rome, called as 23saints: 4Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

8First, 5I thank my God through Jesus Christ 6for you all, because 7your faith is being proclaimed throughout the world. 9For 8God, whom I 9serve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how unceasingly 10I make mention of you, 10always in my prayers requesting if perhaps now, at last by 11the will of God, I will succeed in coming to you. 11For 12I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be 13established; 12that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine. 1314I do not want you to be unaware, 15brothers and sisters, that often I 16have planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may obtain some 17fruit among you also just as among the rest of the Gentiles.