Romans 16:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
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: …
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, …
1 Timothy 5:2
The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
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.

Topics

Aliens Benevolence Brotherly Kindness Cenchrea Charitableness Charity Cruelty Deaconess

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-16)

Such remembrances as these are usual in letters between friends; and yet Paul, by the savouriness of his expressions, sanctifies these common compliments. I. Here is the recommendation of a friend, by whom (as some think) this epistle was sent—one Phebe, Rom. 16:1, 2. It should seem that she was a person of quality and estate, who had business which called her to Rome, where she was a stranger; an…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Ro 16:1-27. Conclusion, Embracing Sundry Salutations and Directions, and a Closing Prayer. 1. I commend unto you Phoebebe our sister, which is a servant--or “deaconess” of the church which is at Cenchrea--The word is “Cenchreæ,” the eastern part of Corinth (Ac 18:18). That in the earliest churches there were deaconesses, to attend to the wants of the female members, there is no good reason to doub…