Greetings

¹⁹ The churches of Asia send you greetings. ^(A)Aquila and Prisca, together with ^(B)the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.

² And he found a Jew named ^(A)Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife ^(B)Priscilla, because ^(C)Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them,

¹¹ saying, ^(A)“Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

Greeting

1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,

To those who are elect exiles of ^(A)the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

² and Apphia our sister and ^(A)Archippus our ^(B)fellow soldier, and ^(C)the church in your house:

Final Greetings

¹⁹ Greet ^(A)Prisca and Aquila, and ^(B)the household of Onesiphorus.

¹⁵ Give my greetings to the brothers^[a] at Laodicea, and to Nympha and ^(A)the church in her house.

¹⁵ Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

³ Greet ^(A)Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, ⁴ who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well. ⁵ Greet also ^(B)the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was ^(C)the first convert^[a] to Christ in Asia.

¹⁰ This continued for ^(A)two years, so that ^(B)all the residents of Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.