Romans 1:7–17

7 to all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.

8  First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world. 9  For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the glad tidings of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you, 10  always beseeching at my prayers, if any way now at least I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you. 11  For I greatly desire to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to establish you; 12  that is, to have mutual comfort among you, each by the faith which is in the other, both yours and mine. 13  But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that I often proposed to come to you, (and have been hindered until the present time,) that I might have some fruit among you too, even as among the other nations also. 14  I am a debtor both to Greeks and barbarians, both to wise and unintelligent: 15  so, as far as depends on me, am I ready to announce the glad tidings to you also who are in Rome.

16  For I am not ashamed of the glad tidings; for it is God’s power to salvation, to every one that believes, both to Jew first and to Greek: 17  for righteousness of God is revealed therein, on the principle of faith, to faith: according as it is written, But the just shall live by faith.