7 To all those in Rome, loved by God, called to be kedoshim: Grace to you and shalom from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah!
8 First, I thank my God through Messiah Yeshua for all of you, because your faithfulness is made known throughout the whole world.
9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the Good News of His Son. How unceasingly I make mention of you,
10 always pleading in my prayers, if somehow by God’s will now at last I will be granted a good journey to come to you.
11 For I long to see you, so I may share with you some spiritual gift to strengthen you.
12 That is to say, we would be encouraged together by one another’s faithfulness—both yours and mine.
13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that many times I planned to come to you (though I was prevented until now)—so I might have some fruit among you also, just as I have among the rest of the nations.