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Romans 16:1

I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:

KJV

Συνίστημι δὲ ὑμῖν Φοίβην τὴν ἀδελφὴν ἡμῶν, οὖσαν διάκονον τῆς ἐκκλησίας τῆς ἐν Κενχρεαῖς,

Greek NT

Commendo autem vobis Phœben sororem nostram, quæ est in ministerio ecclesiæ, quæ est in Cenchris :

Vulgate

I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church that is at Cenchreæ:

ASV

And I commend to you Phebe, our sister, who is in the ministry of the church, that is in Cenchrae:

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Places Cenchreae

In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Κεγχρεαί
kegchreai
noun · 2×
Φοίβη
phoibe
noun · 1×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
διάκονος
diakonos
noun · 30×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
συνιστάω
sunistao
verb · 16×
ἀδελφή
adelphe
noun · 26×
ἐκκλησία
ekklesia
noun · 114×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

trivial
SBLGNT: καὶ | WH/NIV: καὶ
  • καὶ — SBLGNT
  • καὶ — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Doctrines that cite this verse

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210230.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 9:5 — Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
  • 1Pet 1:22 — Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
  • 1Tim 5:2 — The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
  • 1Tim 5:9 — Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
  • Acts 18:18 — And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he
  • Acts 18:18 — And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he
  • Exod 35:25 — And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.
  • Jas 2:15 — If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
  • Matt 10:41 — He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.
  • Matt 12:50 — For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
  • Prov 31:31 — Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.