Romans 16:1
I recommend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a deaconess at the Cenchreae church.
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In The King James Version
I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
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Mark 10:30will receive in return in due course a hundred times as many homes and brothers and sisters and children and lands—as well as persecution. In the world to come they will receive eternal life.
Acts 18:18Paul stayed on for a while. Then he left the believers and sailed for Syria, taking Priscilla and Aquila along with him. He had his head shaved while in Cenchrae, because he had taken a vow.
1 Timothy 5:2older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with the highest standards of decency.
James 2:15If a brother or sister doesn't have clothes, or food for the day,
Matthew Henry on Romans 16:1
Paul is now concluding this long and excellent epistle, and he does it with a great deal of affection. As in the main body of the epistle he appears to have been a very knowing man, so in these appurtenances of it he appears to have been a very loving man. So much knowledge and so much love are a very rare, but (where they exist) a very excellent and amiable—composition; for what is heaven but knowledge and love made perfect? It is observable how often Paul speaks as if he were concluding, and yet takes fresh hold… Read the whole commentary →