Romans 1:8-15 - Paul Wants To Visit Rome
8 First: Verily I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is published throughout all the world. 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit, in the Gospel of his son that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers, 10 beseeching that at one time or another, a prosperous journey, by the will of God, might fortune me to come unto you. 11 For I long to see you, that I might bestow among you some spiritual gift, to strengthen you withal. 12 That is: that I might have consolation together with you, through the common faith, which both ye and I have.
13 I would that ye should know, brethren, how that I have oftentimes purposed to come unto you, but have been let hitherto, to have some fruit among you, as I have among other of the gentiles. 14 For I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to them which are no Greeks, unto the learned and also unto the unlearned. 15 Likewise, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the Gospel to you of Rome also.