I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,
After this, Paul stayed many days longer and then took leave of the brothers and set sail for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchreae he had cut his hair, for he was under a vow.
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband, and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work.
If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,
older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.
For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you?
and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means.
who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
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