Paul’s Desire to Visit Rome

8  First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. 9  For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you 10  and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God. 11  For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you, 12  that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another’s faith, both yours and mine. 13  I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles. 14  I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. 15  Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome.