| 16 | Romans | ||
| 1 | I COMMEND TO YOU PHOEBE, a fellow-Christian who holds office in the congregation at Cenchreae. | Personal Greetings Ro.16.1-24 | |
| 2 | Give her, in the fellowship of Christ, a welcome worthy of God's people, and stand by her in any business in which she may need your help, for she has herself been a good friend to many, including myself. | ||
| 3 | Give my greetings to Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workers in Jesus Christ. | ||
| 4 | They risked their necks to save my life, and not I alone but all the gentile congregations are grateful to them. | ||
| 5 | Greet also the congregation at their house. Give my greetings to my dear friend Epaenetus, the first convert to Christ in Asia, | ||
| 6 | and to Mary, who toiled hard for you. | ||
| 7 | Greet Andronicus and Junias my fellow-countrymen and comrades in captivity. They are eminent among the apostles, and they were Christians before I was. | ||
| 8 | Greetings to Ampliatus, my dear friend in the fellowship of the Lord, | ||
| 9 | to Urban my comrade in Christ, and to my dear Stachys. | ||
| 10 | My greetings to Apelles, well proved in Christ's service, to the household of Aristobulus, | ||
| 11 | and my countryman Herodion, and to those of the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord's fellowship. | ||
| 12 | Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who toil in the Lord's service, and dear Persis who has toiled in his service so long. | ||
| 13 | Give my greetings to Rufus, an outstanding follower of the Lord, and to his mother, whom I call mother too. | ||
| 14 | Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and all friends in their company. | ||
| 15 | Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all God's people associated with them. | ||
| 16 | Greet one another with the kiss of peace. All Christ's congregations send you their greetings. | ||
| 17 | I implore you, my friends, keep your eye on those who stir up quarrels and lead others astray, contrary to the teaching you received. | ||
| 18 | Avoid them, for such people are servants not of Christ our Lord but of their own appetites, and they seduce the minds of innocent people with smooth and specious words. | ||
| 19 | The fame of your obedience has spread everywhere. This makes me happy about you; yet I should wish you to be experts in goodness but simpletons in evil; | ||
| 20 | and the God of peace will soon crush Satan beneath your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you! | ||
| 21 | Greetings to you from my colleague Timothy, and from Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater my fellow-countrymen. | ||
| 22 | (I Tertius, who took this letter down, add my Christian greetings.) | ||
| 23 | Greetings also from Gaius, my host and host of the whole congregation, and from Erastus, treasurer of this city, and our brother Quartus. | ||
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| 25 | TO HIM who has power to make your standing sure, according to the Gospel I brought you and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of that divine secret kept in silence for long ages | Doxology Ro.16.25-27 | |
| 26 | but now disclosed, and through prophetic scriptures by eternal God's command made known to all nations, to bring them to faith and obedience? | ||
| 27 | to God who alone is wise, through Jesus Christ, be glory for endless ages! Amen. | ||
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