6. among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:
7. to all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.
8. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world.
9. For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the glad tidings of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,
10. always beseeching at my prayers, if any way now at least I may be prospered 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 to establish you;
12. that is, to have mutual comfort among you, each by the faith which is in the other, both yours and mine.
13. But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that I often proposed to come to you, (and have been hindered until the present time,) that I might have some fruit among you too, even as among the other nations also.