8. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world.
9. For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how unceasingly I make mention of you,
10. always in my prayers making request, if perhaps now at last by the will of God I may succeed in coming to you.
11. For I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be established;
12. that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.
13. I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that often I have planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may obtain some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.
14. I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
15. So, for my part, I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.