Romans 1:8-17

⁸First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because the report of your faith is spreading throughout the world.

⁹God, to whom I offer the worship of my soul as I tell the goodness of his Son, is my witness how constantly I mention you when I pray,

¹⁰asking that, if he be willing, I may some day at last find the way open to visit you.

¹¹For I long to see you, in order to impart to you some spiritual gift and so give you fresh strength —

¹²or rather that both you and I may find encouragement in each other's faith.

¹³I want you to know, my friends, that I have many times intended coming to see you — but until now I have been prevented — that I might find amongst you some fruit of my labours, as I have already amongst the other nations.

¹⁴I have a duty to both the Greek and the barbarian, to both the cultured and the ignorant.

¹⁵And so, for my part, I am ready to tell the good news to you also who are in Rome.

¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the good news; it is the power of God which brings salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first, but also to the Greek.

¹⁷For in it there is a revelation of the divine righteousness resulting from faith and leading on to faith; as scripture says — ‘Through faith the righteous will find life.’