Longing to Go to Rome8First,I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you,because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.9For God is my witness,whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son,that without ceasing I mention you10always in my prayers, asking that somehowby God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you.11ForI long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you12that is, that we may be mutually encouragedby each other's faith, both yours and mine.13I do not want you to be unaware, brothers,[a]thatI have often intended to come to you (butthus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap someharvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.14I am under obligation both to Greeks and tobarbarians,[b]both to the wise and to the foolish.Romans 1:8-14 ESV