Romans 1:8-17

⁸First I do thankings to my God, by Jesus Christ, for all you, for your faith is showed in all the world.

⁹For God is a witness to me, to whom I serve in my spirit, in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mind of you evermore in my prayers,

¹⁰and beseech or praying, if in any manner sometime I have a speedy way in the will of God to come to you.

¹¹For I desire to see you, to impart somewhat to you of spiritual grace or that I give to you something of spiritual grace, that ye be confirmed,

¹²that is, to be comforted together in you, by that faith that is both yours and mine together.

¹³And, brethren, I will not, that ye not know, that oft I purposed to come to you, and I am hindered till this time, that I have some fruit in you, as in other folks.

¹⁴To Greeks and to barbarians, to wise men and to unwise men, I am debtor,

¹⁵so that that is in me is ready to preach the gospel or to evangelize also to you that be at Rome.

¹⁶For I shame not the gospel, for it is the virtue of God into health, to each man that believeth, to the Jew first, and to the Greek.

¹⁷For the rightwiseness of God is showed in it, of faith into faith, as it is written, For a just man liveth of faith.