Thus I am eager ¹  also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome. ² 

Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

And we are sending ¹  with them our brother whom we have tested many times and found eager in many matters, but who now is much more eager than ever because of the great confidence he has in you.

So then, brothers and sisters, ¹  be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid anyone from speaking in tongues. ² 

They requested ¹  only that we remember the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.

But you should be eager for the greater gifts. And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison. ¹ 

It is the same with you. Since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, ¹  seek to abound in order to strengthen the church.

because he not only accepted our request, but since he was very eager, ¹  he is coming ²  to you of his own accord. ³ 

Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, ¹  so that when you see him again you can rejoice ²  and I can be free from anxiety.

He ¹  gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, ²  who are eager to do good. ³ 

Dear friends, although I have been eager to write to you ¹  about our common salvation, I now feel compelled ²  instead to write to encourage ³  you to contend earnestly ⁴  for the faith ⁵  that was once for all ⁶  entrusted to the saints. ⁷