Romans 1:7-15
to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.So as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome.
