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 celebrated through the whole world. ⁹ for God is my witness, to whom I am entirely devoted, in preaching the gospel of his son, that I constantly make mention of you, in my prayers, requesting, ¹⁰ if it be God's will, that I might now at length have the happiness of coming to you. ¹¹ for I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, in order to establish you: ¹² or indeed that we may have mutual consolation from the faith which is in common to you and to me.

¹³ now I would not have you ignorant, my brethren, that I often purposed to come to you, tho' I have been hindered hitherto, that I might be useful among you as well as among other Gentiles. ¹⁴ I owe what service I can do to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians, to the learned, and to the illiterate. ¹⁵ so, that as far as it depends upon me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also, who are at Rome.