8 First, aI thank my God through Jesus Christ 1for you all, because byour faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world.

9 For aGod, whom I bserve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how unceasingly cI make mention of you,

10 always in my prayers making request, if perhaps now at last by athe will of God I may succeed in coming to you.

11 For aI long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be 1established;

12 that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

13 aI do not want you to be unaware, bbrethren, that often I chave planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may obtain some dfruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

14 aI am 1under obligation both to Greeks and to bbarbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

15 So, for my part, I am eager to apreach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.