8. Certainly, I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, first for all of you, because your faith is being announced throughout the entire world.
9. For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit by the Gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I have kept a remembrance of you
10. always in my prayers, pleading that in some way, at some time, I may have a prosperous journey, within the will of God, to come to you.
11. For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you a certain spiritual grace to strengthen you,
12. specifically, to be consoled together with you through that which is mutual: your faith and mine.
13. But I want you to know, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you, (though I have been hindered even to the present time) so that I might obtain some fruit among you also, just as also among the other Gentiles.
14. To the Greeks and to the uncivilized, to the wise and to the foolish, I am in debt.