Romans 1:6-14

⁶You believers who are living in Rome city are included among those whom God has chosen to belong to Jesus Christ.

⁷I am writing this letter to all of you in Rome whom God loves and whom he has chosen to become his people. I pray that God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord will continue to act kindly toward you and will continue to cause you to have inner peace.

⁸As I begin this letter, I thank my God for all you believers in Rome. It is because of what Jesus Christ has done for us that I am able to do that. I thank him because your trusting in Jesus Christ is something that people all over the Roman Empire HYP are talking about.

⁹God, whom I devotedly serve as I proclaim to people the gospel concerning his Son, knows that I tell the truth when I say that I always mention you whenever DOU I pray to God HYP.

¹⁰I especially ask God that if he desires me to visit you, somehow at last I shall be able to do so.

¹¹I pray this because I long to visit you to help you spiritually, in order that you will become stronger spiritually.

¹²I long to visit you in order that you and I might encourage each other by means of our sharing with each other how each of us trusts in Jesus.

¹³My fellow believers, many times I planned to visit you. I certainly want you to know LIT that. But I have not been able to come to you because I have been hindered { things have always prevented me} until the present time. I have wanted to come in order that I might help you to mature spiritually IDM, as I have helped people to mature spiritually in many other non-Jewish groups HYP.

¹⁴I feel obliged to proclaim the gospel to all non-Jewish people, specifically to people who know the Greek language and culture and to those who do not know it, to people who are educated and to those who are uneducated.