Romans 1:8

Paul’s Desire to Visit Rome

1:8 First of all, ¹  I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

Romans 1:10

1:10 and I always ask ²  in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God. ³ 

Romans 1:15

1:15 Thus I am eager ⁴  also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome. ⁵ 

Romans 2:24

2:24 For just as it is written, “the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” ⁶ 

Romans 11:13

11:13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

Romans 11:21

11:21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.

Romans 11:30

11:30 Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience,

Romans 16:20-21

16:20 The God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

16:21 Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my compatriots. ⁷ 

¹ tn Grk “First.” Paul never mentions a second point, so J. B. Phillips translated “I must begin by telling you….”

² tn Grk “remember you, always asking.”

³ tn Grk “succeed in coming to you in the will of God.”

³ tn Or “willing, ready”; Grk “so my eagerness [is] to preach…” The word πρόθυμος (proqumo", “eager, willing”) is used only elsewhere in the NT in Matt 26:41 = Mark 14:38: “the spirit indeed is willing (πρόθυμος), but the flesh is weak.”

⁴ map For location see JP4-A1.

⁴ sn A quotation from Isa 52:5.

⁵ tn Grk “kinsmen, relatives, fellow countrymen.”