9. God knows how often I pray for you. Day and night I bring you and your needs in prayer to God, whom I serve with all my heart by spreading the Good News about his Son.
10. One of the things I always pray for is the opportunity, God willing, to come at last to see you.
11. For I long to visit you so I can bring you some spiritual gift that will help you grow strong in the Lord.
12. When we get together, I want to encourage you in your faith, but I also want to be encouraged by yours.
13. I want you to know, dear brothers and sisters, that I planned many times to visit you, but I was prevented until now. I want to work among you and see spiritual fruit, just as I have seen among other Gentiles.
14. For I have a great sense of obligation to people in both the civilized world and the rest of the world, to the educated and uneducated alike.
15. So I am eager to come to you in Rome, too, to preach the Good News.