Romans 1:8-17

⁸first, indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world;

⁹for God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,

¹⁰always in my prayers beseeching, if by any means now at length I shall have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you,

¹¹for I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that ye may be established;

¹²and that is, that I may be comforted together among you, through the faith in one another, both yours and mine.

¹³And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that many times I did purpose to come unto you — and was hindered till the present time — that some fruit I might have also among you, even as also among the other nations.

¹⁴Both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to wise and to thoughtless, I am a debtor,

¹⁵so, as much as in me is, I am ready also to you who are in Rome to proclaim good news,

¹⁶for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

¹⁷For the righteousness of God in it is revealed from faith to faith, according as it hath been written, 'And the righteous one by faith shall live,'