7. And so I write to all of you in Rome whom God loves and has called to be his own people:May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.
8. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because the whole world is hearing about your faith.
9. God is my witness that what I say is true — the God whom I serve with all my heart by preaching the Good News about his Son. God knows that I remember you
10. every time I pray. I ask that God in his good will may at last make it possible for me to visit you now.
11. For I want very much to see you, in order to share a spiritual blessing with you to make you strong.
12. What I mean is that both you and I will be helped at the same time, you by my faith and I by yours.
13. You must remember, my brothers and sisters, that many times I have planned to visit you, but something has always kept me from doing so. I want to win converts among you also, as I have among other Gentiles.