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

⁸ First I thank my God, through Jesus Christ, for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout all the world. ⁹ God is my witness, to whom I render holy service in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I am ever making mention of you in my prayers, ¹⁰ always entreating him that now at length, if such be his will, the way may be made clear for me to come to you. ¹¹ For I am longing so to see you, in order to impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established; ¹² that is, that I with you may be encouraged by you, each of us by the other's faith, yours and mine.

¹³ I want you to know, brothers, that many a time I have planned to come to you??hough until now I have been hindered??o as to have some harvest-fruit among you also, even as I have among the rest of the Gentiles. ¹⁴ To Greeks and to barbarians, to the cultured and to the uncultured, I have a debt to discharge. ¹⁵ So much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.