Romans 1:8–17

⁸First, I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all: because your faith is spoken of in the whole world.

⁹For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make a commemoration of you:

¹⁰Always in my prayers making request, if by any means now at length I may have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you.

¹¹For I long to see you that I may impart unto you some spiritual grace, to strengthen you:

¹²That is to say, that I may be comforted together in you by that which is common to us both, your faith and mine.

¹³And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come unto you (and have been hindered hitherto) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

¹⁴To the Greeks and to the barbarians, to the wise and to the unwise, I am a debtor.

¹⁵So (as much as is in me) I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are at 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 to the Greek.

¹⁷For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto faith, as it is written: The just man liveth by faith.