now a married woman is bound by the law to her living husband: but if her husband dieth, she is released from the marriage-contract.

wherefore she will be reputed an adulteress if she become another man's during her husband's life: but if her husband dies, she is clear from that law, from the imputation of being an adulteress, though she become another man's.

it was said to her, "the elder shall serve the younger."

as he saith himself in Osee, "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her, beloved, which was not beloved.

For Moses describes the justice that was to be had by the law, thus : "the man who performeth the things here required, shall have life thereby."

and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach except they be sent? as it is written, "how beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!"

as it is written, "God hath given them up to a state of insensibility, so that their eyes could not see, and their ears could not hear."

I recommend to you Phebe our sister, who is a deaconess of the church at Kenchrea; receive her for Christ's sake,

as becometh christians, and assist her in every thing her business requires: for she hath assisted many besides my self.

salute one anther with an holy kiss. all the churches of Christ here, salute you.