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

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

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

And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house:

Greet Ampliatus my beloved in the Lord.

Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet the beloved Persis, who labored much in the Lord.

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

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

I beseech you, brethren, (you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted 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 who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb.

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

And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made an attack 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 who 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 who are in all Achaia:

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