Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers; For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
Romans 1:9 stands within Paul's thanksgiving offered through Jesus Christ for believers whose faith is talked about throughout the whole world. It belongs to his longing to see them to impart some spiritual gift to establish them. Its aim is that he and they may be comforted together by mutual faith.
The verse belongs to the whole first chapter of Romans, which presents Paul's true experience. That chapter is to be read in full and presented in its full force. In that full setting the verse serves as a word of warning to families who profess to be God's children, especially fathers and mothers. It charges them to wake up to their strangely neglected responsibilities in home life, and to meet their accountability to God as faithful, exemplary believers working together with God. It calls them to obey the truth in righteousness and be cleansed from every kind of iniquity through sanctifying grace in the home, rather than holding the truth as mere professed belief while denying it by their works.