7To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
8First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world.
9For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,
10And that I am ever making prayers that God will give me a good journey to you.
11For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong;
12That is to say, that all of us may be comforted together by the faith which is in you and in me.
13You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.
