For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.

Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.

And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house:

Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.

Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.

The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.

And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,

And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:

For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.