Romans 1:8-15 - Paul Wants To Visit Rome

⁸ First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world. ⁹ For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the glad tidings of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you, ¹⁰ always beseeching at my prayers, if any way now at least I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you. ¹¹ For I greatly desire to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to establish you; ¹² that is, to have mutual comfort among you, each by the faith which is in the other, both yours and mine.

¹³ But 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. ¹⁴ I am a debtor both to Greeks and barbarians, both to wise and unintelligent: ¹⁵ so, as far as depends on me, am I ready to announce the glad tidings to you also who are in Rome.