8. First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
9. For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you
10. and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.
11. For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,
12. that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another’s faith, both yours and mine.
13. I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles.
14. I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.