Living Out Our Calling

Prayer of Thanksgiving
8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the world.9For God, whom I serve with my spirit by announcing the gospelof his Son, is my witness that without ceasing I remember you always in my prayers,10asking that by Gods will I may somehow at last succeed in coming to you.11For I long to see you so that I may share with you some spiritual gift so that you may be strengthened12or rather so that we may be mutually encouraged by each others faith, both yours and mine.13I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you, as I have among the rest of the gentiles.14I am obligated both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish,15hence my eagerness to proclaim the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
The Power of the Gospel
16For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is Gods saving power for everyone who believes,for the Jew first and also for the Greek.