Romans 16:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.

The church

My

Romans 16:8

3 John 1:1

Who

Achaia

Bible References

The church

For where two or three have come together in my Name, I am present with them."

The Churches in Roman Asia send you their greetings. Aquila and Prisca and the Church that meets at their house send you many Christian greetings.

Give my greeting to the Brethren at Laodicea, and to Nymphe, and to the Church that meets at her house.

To our dear friend and fellow-worker Philemon, to our sister Apphia, to our fellow-soldier Archippus; and to the Church that meets at Philemon's house;

My

To my dear Christian friend Ampliatus;

To his dear friend Gaius, whom he sincerely loves, From the Officer of the Church.

Who

If the first handful of dough in holy, so is the whole mass; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

I have another request to make of you, Brothers. You remember Stephanas and his household, and that they were the first-fruits gathered in from Greece, and set themselves to serve Christ's People.

Because he so willed, he gave us Life, through the Message of the Truth, so that we should be, as it were, an earnest of still further creations.

These are the men who never defiled themselves in their intercourse with women; they are as pure as virgins. These are the men who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were redeemed as the first-fruits of mankind for God and for the Lamb.

Achaia

For Macedonia and Greece have been glad to make a collection for the poor among Christ's People at Jerusalem.

While Gallio was governor of Greece, the Jews made a combined attack on Paul, and brought him before the Governor's Bench,

To the Church of God in Corinth, and to all Christ's People throughout Greece, from Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, and from Timothy, a Brother.

I know, of course, your willingness to help, and I am always boasting of it to the Macedonians. I tell them that you in Greece have been ready for a year past; and it was really your zeal that stimulated most of them.