Romans Chapter 1,

1, 8 through 15.

First, I thank my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all, because your faith is being

proclaimed throughout the whole world.

For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of his son, is my witness

as to how unceasingly I make mention of you.

Always in my prayers making request,

if perhaps now at last, by the will of God I may succeed in coming to you.

For I long to you.

For I long to see you in order that I may impart some spiritual gift to you that you may be

established.

That is, that I may be encouraged together with you,

while among you, each of us by the others' faith,

both yours and mine.

And I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that often I have planned to come to you

and have been prevented thus far in order that I might obtain some fruit among you also, even

as among the rest of the Gentiles. I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the

wise and the foolish. Thus, for my part, I am eager to preach the gospel

to you also who are in Rome. Would you focus with me now on verse 14 for a few minutes?

I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Or like the King James version has it more literally, I am debtor.

I'm going to use that translation because I think the word debtor, which is where I want to hang about 10 minutes worth of my thinking

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