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

⁸ First, through Jesus Christ I thank my God for you all, because the report of your faith is spreading all over the world. ⁹ Indeed, my witness is God, whom I serve in my spirit by telling the good news about His Son, that I never fail to mention you every time I pray, ¹⁰ always entreating God that somehow by His will I may some day at last succeed in getting to see you. ¹¹ For I am longing to see you, to impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be strengthened; ¹² in other words, that we may be mutually encouraged, while I am with you, by one another's faith, yours and mine.

¹³ Furthermore, I want you to know, brothers, that I have often planned to come to see you (though until now I have been prevented), in order that I may gather some fruit among you too, as I have among the rest of the heathen. ¹⁴ To Greeks and to all the other nations, to cultured and to uncultured people alike, I owe a duty. ¹⁵ So, as far as I can, I am eager to preach the good news to you at Rome, too.