¹ It is my desire to say a good word for Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchreae:

¹⁸ And Paul, after waiting some days, went away from the brothers and went by ship to Syria, Priscilla and Aquila being with him; and he had had his hair cut off in Cenchrea, for he had taken an oath.

¹ Do we seem to be again attempting to put ourselves in the right? or have we need, as some have, of letters of approval to you or from you?

⁵⁰ For whoever does the pleasure of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

³⁰ Who will not get a hundred times as much now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and land--though with great troubles; and, in the world to come, eternal life.

³ And Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's chief house-servant, and Susanna and a number of others, who gave him of their wealth for his needs.

² To the older women as to mothers, to the younger as to sisters, with a clean heart.

⁹ Let no woman be numbered among the widows who is under sixty years old, and only if she has been the wife of one man,

¹⁰ And if witness is given of her good works; if she has had the care of children, if she has been kind to travellers, washing the feet of the saints, helping those who are in trouble, giving herself to good works.

¹⁵ If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food,

²² And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

²³ Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.