Romans 16:1

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

² That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.

³ Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church in Cenchrea.
KJV: I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
WEB: I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,
ASV: I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church that is at Cenchreae:
DARBY: But I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is minister of the assembly which is in Cenchrea;
BLB: Now I commend to you⁺ Phoebe our sister, being also a servant of the church in Cenchrea,

ÅB: Jeg anbefaler dere Føbe, vår søster, som er menighetstjener i Kenkreæ.
OTB: Jeg introduserer for dere vår søster Føbe, en tjener for menigheten i Kenkreæ.
B1930: Jeg anbefaler eder Føbe, vår søster, som er menighets-tjenerinne i Kenkreæ,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

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 had a vow.
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1 Peter 1:22–23
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:
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1 Timothy 5:9–10
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
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James 2:15
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
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Matthew 12:50
For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
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1 Timothy 5:2
The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
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Mark 10:30
But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
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Luke 8:3
And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.
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