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

⁸ First, indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in all the world. ⁹ For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how incessantly I make mention of you, always in my prayers ¹⁰ asking if by any means I may now at some time have a prosperous journey 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, that you may be strengthened, ¹² that is, that I may be comforted in you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

¹³ But I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, that I often purposed to come to you, and was hindered hitherto, that I might have some fruit also among you, as among the other gentiles. ¹⁴ I am a debtor both to the Greeks and the Barbarians, both to the wise and the ignorant; ¹⁵ so that as far as depends upon me I am ready also to preach the gospel to those at Rome.