罗马书 16:12

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

問候在主裡勞苦的土非拿和土富撒。問候親愛的彼息；她在主裡多多勞苦。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
又 问 为 主 劳 苦 的 土 非 拿 氏 和 土 富 撒 氏 安 。 问 可 亲 爱 为 主 多 受 劳 苦 的 彼 息 氏 安 。

Contextual Overview

¹ I recommend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a helper in the church in Cenchrea. ² I ask you to accept her in the Lord in the way God's people should. Help her with anything she needs, because she has helped me and many other people also. ³ Give my greetings to Priscilla and Aquila, who work together with me in Christ Jesus ⁴ and who risked their own lives to save my life. I am thankful to them, and all the non-Jewish churches are thankful as well. ⁵ Also, greet for me the church that meets at their house. Greetings to my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first person in Asia to follow Christ. ⁶ Greetings to Mary, who worked very hard for you. ⁷ Greetings to Andronicus and Junia, my relatives, who were in prison with me. They are very important apostles. They were believers in Christ before I was. ⁸ Greetings to Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord. ⁹ Greetings to Urbanus, a worker together with me for Christ. And greetings to my dear friend Stachys. ¹⁰ Greetings to Apelles, who was tested and proved that he truly loves Christ. Greetings to all those who are in the family of Aristobulus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

labour: Matthew 9:38, 1 Corinthians 15:10, 1 Corinthians 15:58, 1 Corinthians 16:16, Colossians 1:29, Colossians 4:12, 1 Thessalonians 1:3, 1 Thessalonians 5:12, 1 Thessalonians 5:13, 1 Timothy 4:10, 1 Timothy 5:17, 1 Timothy 5:18, Hebrews 6:10, Hebrews 6:11

Reciprocal: Exodus 35:25 - General Proverbs 31:31 - and let Acts 15:25 - our Romans 16:5 - my Romans 16:6 - who Philippians 4:3 - help Revelation 2:3 - hast laboured

Cross-References

Genesis 16:5
Then Sarai said to Abram, "This is your fault. I gave my slave girl to you, and when she became pregnant, she began to treat me badly. Let the Lord decide who is right—you or me."

Genesis 16:8
The angel said, "Hagar, Sarai's slave girl, where have you come from? Where are you going?" Hagar answered, "I am running away from my mistress Sarai."

Genesis 21:20
God was with the boy as he grew up. Ishmael lived in the desert and became an archer.

Genesis 27:40
You will live by using your sword, and you will be a slave to your brother. But when you struggle, you will break free from him."

Job 11:12
A fool cannot become wise any more than a wild donkey can be born tame.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord,.... These two were women, and are said to be noble women of Iconium, whom the apostle converted there, and afterwards went to Rome the names are Greek t, though they might be Jewish women, since Tryphon is the name of a man among the Jews. Trypho, the famous Jew, with whom Justin Martyr had his dialogue, is well known, and perhaps is the same with R. Tarphon, or Tryphon, so often mentioned in the Misnic and Talmudic writings: however, as these were women, their labour cannot be understood of their labouring in the word of the Lord, or in the public ministry of it, since this was forbid by the apostle, and therefore would never commend them on account of it; but of their great usefulness and indefatigableness, in serving the interest of their dear Lord with their purses; in relieving the poor of the church, in entertaining and supplying the ministers of the Gospel, as well as by their private instructions, exhortations, and giving an account of their own experience, whereby they might greatly encourage, edify, and strengthen young converts, and other Christians, as Priscilla with her husband did; and were unwearied in doing everything that they were capable of, in promoting the Gospel and kingdom of Christ:

salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord; who being a woman also, and perhaps of Persic original, and might have her name from her country; her labour must be understood of the same kind with the former, only with this addition, that she abounded and exceeded in it; she is said by the Syriac scholiast to be the wife of Rufus, mentioned in Romans 16:13.

t Vid. Gutherleth. Animadv. Philolog. in Inscript. Smyrn. p. 115, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Tryphena and Tryphosa - These names, with the participle rendered “who labor,” are in the feminine gender, and these were probably two holy women, who performed the function of deaconesses, or who ministered to the sick, and who with Persia, thus by example, and perhaps by instruction, labored to promote the spread of Christianity. Pious females, then, as now, were able to do much in their proper sphere to extend the truths and blessings of the gospel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 16:12. Tryphena and Tryphosa — Two holy women, who it seems were assistants to the apostle in his work, probably by exhorting, visiting the sick, c. Persis was another woman, who it seems excelled the preceding for, of her it is said, she laboured much in the Lord. We learn from this, that Christian women, as well as men, laboured in the ministry of the word. In those times of simplicity all persons, whether men or women, who had received the knowledge of the truth, believed it to be their duty to propagate it to the uttermost of their power. Many have spent much useless labour in endeavouring to prove that these women did not preach. That there were some prophetesses, as well as prophets in the Christian Church, we learn; and that a woman might pray or prophesy, provided she had her head covered, we know; and that whoever prophesied spoke unto others to edification, exhortation, and comfort, St. Paul declares, 1 Corinthians 14:3. And that no preacher can do more, every person must acknowledge; because to edify, exhort, and comfort, are the prime ends of the Gospel ministry. If women thus prophesied, then women preached. There is, however, much more than this implied in the Christian ministry, of which men only, and men called of God, are capable.