ROMANS 1:8-17

⁸First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

⁹For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you, always in my prayers

¹⁰making request, if by any means now at length I may be prospered by the will of God to come unto you.

¹¹For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

¹²that is, that I with you may be comforted in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

¹³And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the Gentiles.

¹⁴I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

¹⁵So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are in Rome.

¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹⁷For therein is revealed a righteousness of God by faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith.