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First I thanke my God through Iesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

For God is my witnesse, whom I serue with my spirit in the Gospel of his Sonne, that without ceasing I make mention of you, alwayes in my prayers,

Making request, (if by any meanes now at length I might haue a prosperous iourney by the will of God) to come vnto you.

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

That is, that I may be comforted together with you, by the mutual faith both of you and me.

Now I would not haue you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come vnto you, (but was let hitherto) that I might haue some fruit among you also, euen as among other Gentiles.

I am debter both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians, both to the wise, and to the vnwise.

So, as much as in mee is, I am ready to preach the Gospel to you that are at Rome also.