^{7 Ref} To 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.

^{8 Ref} First 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.

^{9 Ref} For 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,

^{10 Ref} And that I am ever making prayers that God will give me a good journey to you.

^{11 Ref} For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong;

^{12 Ref} That is to say, that all of us may be comforted together by the faith which is in you and in me.

^{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.