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.
14. I am a debtor both to Greeks and barbarians, both to wise and unintelligent:
15. so, as far as depends on me, am I ready to announce the glad tidings to you also who are in Rome.
16. For I am not ashamed of the glad tidings; for it is God's power to salvation, to every one that believes, both to Jew first and to Greek:
17. for righteousness of God is revealed therein, on the principle of faith, to faith: according as it is written, But the just shall live by faith.
18. For there is revealed wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety, and unrighteousness of men holding the truth in unrighteousness.
19. Because what is known of God is manifest among them, for God has manifested it to them,