Sister Phoebe Commended

16 I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church in ^(A)Cenchrea,

Paul Returns to Antioch

¹⁸ So Paul still remained ^[a]a good while. Then he took leave of the brethren and sailed for Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila were with him. ^(A)He had his hair cut off at ^(B)Cenchrea, for he had taken a vow.

The Enduring Word

²² Since you ^(A)have purified your souls in obeying the truth ^[a]through the Spirit in ^[b]sincere ^(B)love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, ^23 (C)having been born again, not of ^[c]corruptible seed but ^[d]incorruptible, ^(D)through the word of God which lives and abides ^[e]forever,

⁹ Do not let a widow under sixty years old be taken into the number, and not unless she has been the wife of one man, ¹⁰ well reported for good works: if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.

^15 (A)If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,

² older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

Christ’s Epistle^(A)

3 Do ^(B)we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, ^(C)epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you?

³ and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others who provided for ^[a]Him from their ^[b]substance.

^30 (A)who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with ^(B)persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.

⁵⁰ For ^(A)whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”