Romans 1:13-17

I do not want you to unaware, brothers, that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you as I have had among the other Gentiles. I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. That is why I am eager to preach the gospel also to you who are at Rome. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God for the salvation to everyone that believes, first for the Jew, then for the Gentiles. For in the Gospel a righteousness of God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written, "the righteous shall live by faith."