11 For I long to see you, so that I might share with you some spiritual gift that can make you stronger —

12 or, to put it another way, so that by my being with you, we might, through the faith we share, encourage one another.

13 Brothers, I want you to know that although I have been prevented from visiting you until now, I have often planned to do so, in order that I might have some fruit among you, just as I have among the other Gentiles.