Thanksgiving and Travel Plans

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

requesting, if by any means now at length I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end you may be established;

that is, that I with you may be comforted in you, each of us by the other`s faith, both yours and mine.

Now I don`t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that often I planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the Gentiles.

I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.

So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.