Romans 1:7-10

1:7 To all those loved by God in Rome, ¹  called to be saints: ²  Grace and peace to you ³  from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

Paul’s Desire to Visit Rome

1:8 First of all, ⁴  I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. 1:9 For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel ⁵  of his Son, is my witness that ⁶  I continually remember you 1:10 and I always ask ⁷  in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God. ⁸ 

[1:7]  ¹ map For location see JP4 A1.

[1:7]  ² tn Although the first part of v. 7 is not a complete English sentence, it maintains the “From…to” pattern used in all the Pauline letters to indicate the sender and the recipients. Here, however, there are several intervening verses (vv. 2-6), which makes the first half of v. 7 appear as an isolated sentence fragment.

[1:7]  ³ tn Grk “Grace to you and peace.”

[1:8]  ⁴ tn Grk “First.” Paul never mentions a second point, so J. B. Phillips translated “I must begin by telling you….”

[1:9]  ⁷ tn Grk “whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel.”

[1:9]  ⁸ tn Grk “as.”

[1:10]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “remember you, always asking.”

[1:10]  ¹¹ tn Grk “succeed in coming to you in the will of God.”