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

⁸ First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. ⁹ For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you ¹⁰ and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God. ¹¹ For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you, ¹² that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another's faith, both yours and mine.

¹³ I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles. ¹⁴ I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. ¹⁵ Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome.