^{13 Ref} You 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.

^{14 Ref} I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning.

^{15 Ref} For which reason I have the desire, as far as I am able, to give the knowledge of the good news to you who are in Rome.