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Complete Jewish Bible

Romans 16:3

Give my greetings to Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers for the Messiah Yeshua.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Aquila and Priscilla;   Constancy;   Friendship;   Love;   Priscilla;   Thankfulness;   Unselfishness;   Scofield Reference Index - Churches;   Thompson Chain Reference - Aquila;   Church;   Ministry, Woman's;   Woman's;   Women;   Workers, Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Love to Man;   Missionaries, All Christians Should Be as;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Aquila;   Rome, Romans;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Aquila;   Priscilla;   Rome;   Women;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Paul the Apostle;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Church;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Aquila;   Deaconess;   Priscilla;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aquila and Priscilla;   Nehemiah;   Priscilla;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Apostolic Fathers;   Aquila and Priscilla;   Commerce;   Disciples;   Education in Bible Times;   Marriage;   Romans, Book of;   Tryphaena;   Woman;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aquila and Priscilla;   Caesar's Household;   Silas;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Aquila and Priscilla ;   Epaenetus ;   Family;   Fellowship;   Herodion;   Julia ;   Junias Junia ;   Marriage;   Name ;   Nympha Nymphas;   Phoebe ;   Romans Epistle to the;   Salutations;   Urbanus ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Aquila ;   Prisca, Priscilla ;   Woman;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Priscilla;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Aquila;   Deaconess;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Pris'ca;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Priscilla;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Aquila;   Corinth;   Epaenetus;   Romans, Epistle to the;   Urbanus;   Woman;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Aquila;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aquila (Βλώμβσ);  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 11;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Give my greetings to Prisca and Aquila, my coworkers in Christ Jesus,
King James Version (1611)
Greete Priscilla and Aquila, my helpers in Christ Iesus:
King James Version
Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
English Standard Version
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
New American Standard Bible
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
New Century Version
Give my greetings to Priscilla and Aquila, who work together with me in Christ Jesus
Amplified Bible
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
Legacy Standard Bible
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
Berean Standard Bible
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
Contemporary English Version
Give my greetings to Priscilla and Aquila. They have not only served Christ Jesus together with me,
Darby Translation
Salute Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workmen in Christ Jesus,
Easy-to-Read Version
Give my greetings to Priscilla and Aquila, who have worked together with me for Christ Jesus.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Greete Priscilla, and Aquila my fellowe helpers in Christ Iesus,
George Lamsa Translation
Salute Pris-cil''la and A''qui-la, fellowworkers with me in Jesus Christ,
Good News Translation
I send greetings to Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in the service of Christ Jesus;
Lexham English Bible
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
Literal Translation
Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
American Standard Version
Salute Prisca and Aquila my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus,
Bible in Basic English
Give my love to Prisca and Aquila, workers with me in Christ Jesus,
Hebrew Names Version
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Messiah Yeshua,
International Standard Version
Greet Prisca[fn] and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,Acts 18:2,18, 26; 2 Timothy 4:19;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
Ask for the peace of [fn] Priskela and Akulos, labourers with me in Jeshu Meshiha;
Murdock Translation
Salute ye Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow-laborers in Jesus Messiah;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Greete Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christe Iesu:
English Revised Version
Salute Prisca and Aquila my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus,
World English Bible
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Salute Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow-labourers in Christ Jesus:
Weymouth's New Testament
Greetings to Prisca and Aquila my fellow labourers in the work of Christ Jesus--
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Grete ye Prisca and Aquyla, myn helperis in Crist Jhesu,
Update Bible Version
Salute Prisca and Aquila my co-workers in Christ Jesus,
Webster's Bible Translation
Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
New English Translation
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
New King James Version
Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
New Living Translation
Give my greetings to Priscilla and Aquila, my co-workers in the ministry of Christ Jesus.
New Life Bible
Greet Priscilla and Aquila. They worked with me for Christ.
New Revised Standard
Greet Prisca and Aquila, who work with me in Christ Jesus,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Salute ye Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus, -
Douay-Rheims Bible
Salute Prisca and Aquila, my helpers, in Christ Jesus
Revised Standard Version
Greet Prisca and Aq'uila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Grete Prisca and Aquila my helpers in Christ Iesu
Young's Literal Translation
Salute Priscilla and Aquilas, my fellow-workmen in Christ Jesus --
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Grete Prisca and Aquila my helpers in Christ Iesu,
Mace New Testament (1729)
salute Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow-labourers in the gospel of Christ Jesus:
THE MESSAGE
Say hello to Priscilla and Aquila, who have worked hand in hand with me in serving Jesus. They once put their lives on the line for me. And I'm not the only one grateful to them. All the non-Jewish gatherings of believers also owe them plenty, to say nothing of the church that meets in their house. Hello to my dear friend Epenetus. He was the very first follower of Jesus in the province of Asia.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Say hello to Priscilla and Aquila for me. I consider both of them my pards in riding for the Lord.

Contextual Overview

1 I am introducing to you our sister Phoebe, shammash of the congregation at Cenchrea, 2 so that you may welcome her in the Lord, as God's people should, and give her whatever assistance she may need from you; for she has been a big help to many people — including myself. 3 Give my greetings to Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers for the Messiah Yeshua. 4 They risked their necks to save my life; not only I thank them, but also all the Messianic communities among the Gentiles. 5 And give my greetings to the congregation that meets in their house. Give my greetings to my dear friend Epaenetus, who was the first person in the province of Asia to put his trust in the Messiah. 6 Give my greetings to Miryam, who has worked very hard for you. 7 Greetings to Andronicus and Junia, relatives of mine who were in prison with me. They are well known among the emissaries; also they came to trust in the Messiah before I did. 8 Greetings to Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord. 9 Greetings to Urbanus, our fellow worker for the Messiah, and to my dear friend Stachys. 10 Greetings to Appeles, whose trust in the Messiah has been tested and proved. Greet those in the household of Aristobulus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Greet: Had the notes of time in this epistle fixed the writing of it to any date prior to St. Paul's first residence at Corinth, the salutation of Aquila and Priscilla would have contradicted the history, because it would have been prior to his acquaintance with these persons. If they had fixed it during that residence at Corinth, during his journey to Jerusalem, or during his progress through Asia Minor, an equal contradiction would have been incurred because, during all that time, they were either with St. Paul, or abiding at Ephesus. Lastly, had they fixed this epistle to be either contemporary with the first epistle to the Corinthians, or prior to it, a similar contradiction would have ensued, for they were then with St. Paul. As it is, all things are consistent. - See Dr. Paley.

Priscilla: Acts 18:2-17, Acts 18:26, 1 Corinthians 16:19, 2 Timothy 4:19

my: Romans 16:9, 1 Corinthians 16:16

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 22:17 - all the princes Acts 15:23 - greeting Romans 16:2 - for Philippians 4:21 - Salute

Cross-References

Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai Avram's wife had not borne him a child. But she had an Egyptian slave-girl named Hagar;
Genesis 16:4
Avram had sexual relations with Hagar, and she conceived. But when she became aware that she was pregnant, she looked on her mistress with contempt.
Genesis 16:5
Sarai said to Avram, "This outrage being done to me is your fault! True, I gave my slave-girl to you to sleep with; but when she saw that she was pregnant, she began holding me in contempt. May Adonai decide who is right — I or you!"
Genesis 25:6
But to the sons of the concubines he made grants while he was still living and sent them off to the east, to the land of Kedem, away from Yitz'chak his son.
Genesis 28:9
So ‘Esav went to Yishma‘el and took, in addition to the wives he already had, Machalat the daughter of Yishma‘el Avraham's son, the sister of N'vayot, to be his wife. Haftarah Tol'dot: Mal'akhi (Malachi) 1:1–2:7 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Tol'dot: Romans 9:6–16; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 11:20; 12:14–17 Ya‘akov went out from Be'er-Sheva and traveled toward Haran. He came to a certain place and stayed the night there, because the sun had set. He took a stone from the place, put it under his head and lay down there to sleep. He dreamt that there before him was a ladder resting on the ground with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of Adonai were going up and down on it. Then suddenly Adonai was standing there next to him; and he said, "I am Adonai , the God of Avraham your [grand]father and the God of Yitz'chak. The land on which you are lying I will give to you and to your descendants. Your descendants will be as numerous as the grains of dust on the earth. You will expand to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. By you and your descendants all the families of the earth will be blessed. Look, I am with you. I will guard you wherever you go, and I will bring you back into this land, because I won't leave you until I have done what I have promised you." Ya‘akov awoke from his sleep and said, "Truly, Adonai is in this place — and I didn't know it!" Then he became afraid and said, "This place is fearsome! This has to be the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!" Ya‘akov got up early in the morning, took the stone he had put under his head, set it up as a standing-stone, poured olive oil on its top and named the place Beit-El [house of God]; but the town had originally been called Luz. Ya‘akov took this vow: "If God will be with me and will guard me on this road that I am traveling, giving me bread to eat and clothes to wear, so that I return to my father's house in peace, then Adonai will be my God; and this stone, which I have set up as a standing-stone, will be God's house; and of everything you give me, I will faithfully return one-tenth to you."
Genesis 30:4
So she gave him Bilhah her slave-girl as his wife, and Ya‘akov went in and slept with her.
Genesis 30:9
When Le'ah saw that she had stopped having children, she took Zilpah her slave-girl and gave her to Ya‘akov as his wife.
Genesis 32:22
So the present crossed over ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.
Genesis 35:22
It was while Isra'el was living in that land that Re'uven went and slept with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Isra'el heard about it. Ya‘akov had twelve sons.
2 Samuel 5:13
David took for himself more concubines and wives in Yerushalayim after coming from Hevron, so that still more sons and daughters were born to David.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Greet Priscilla and Aquila,.... The former of these, who was a woman, and the wife of the latter, is in some copies called Prisca; and so the Vulgate Latin here reads it, as she is also called in 2 Timothy 4:19. Her being named before her husband, is without design, for sometimes he is put before her, as in Acts 18:2. And it is a rule with the Jews l, that there is neither first nor last in the Scriptures; that is, strict order is not always observed; it is sometimes inverted, find nothing depends upon it: hence the reasons assigned by some, that she was first converted, or had more zeal than her husband, are uncertain and impertinent. She is called Priscilla in the Ethiopic version, as he is in the Arabic, Achilles: he was a Jew of Pontus, and was with his wife drove out of Rome by Claudius Caesar, when with her he went to Corinth, where he met with the Apostle Paul; and they being of the same craft, abode and wrought together at their trade of tent making; and when the apostle removed from thence, they went with him, and were with him at Ephesus; where, meeting with Apollos, who, though an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures, yet being in some things deficient these two took him unto them, in a private way, and taught him the way of God's salvation more perfectly,

Acts 18:24: where they left the apostle is not certain; but either Claudius being dead, or the edict which ordered the Jews to depart from Rome being revoked, or not regarded, they returned thither again; and were here when the apostle wrote this epistle, and whom he salutes, calling them

my helpers in Christ Jesus; in spreading the Gospel, and promoting the kingdom, honour, and interest of Christ; for though they did not publicly preach, at least not Priscilla, yet they were very useful in their private conferences and instructions, both to ministers of the Gospel, as in the case of Apollos, and to young Christians: as the apostle, wherever he went, was instrument of the conversion of many souls; these were helpful privately in encouraging the young converts, comforting them with their own experiences and thereby helped them forward, instructed, strengthened, and established them; and so were greatly assistant to the apostle in the work of the Lord Jesus.

l T. Bab. Pesach. fol. 6. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Greet Priscilla and Aquila - Salute; implying the apostle’s kind remembrance of them, and his wishes for their welfare.

Priscilla - Priscilla was the wife of Aquila. They are mentioned in Acts 18:2, Act 18:26; 1 Corinthians 16:19. Paul at first found them at Corinth. Aquila was a Jew, born in Pontus, who had resided at Rome, and who had left Rome, and come to Corinth, when Claudius expelled the Jews from Rome; see the notes at Acts 18:2. It is probable that they were converted under the preaching of Paul. Paul lived with them, and they had the advantage of his private instruction; Acts 18:3; compare Acts 18:26. At the death of Claudius, or whenever the decree for the expulsion of the Jews was repealed, it is probable that they returned to Rome.

My helpers - My fellow-workers. They had aided him in his work. A particular instance is mentioned in Acts 18:26. They are mentioned as having been with Paul when he wrote the First Epistle to the Corinthians; 1 Corinthians 16:19.

In Christ Jesus - In the Christian cause.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 16:3. Greet Priscilla and Aquila — This pious couple had been obliged to leave Rome, on the edict of Claudius, see Acts 18:2, and take refuge in Greece. It is likely that they returned to Rome at the death of Claudius, or whenever the decree was annulled. It seems they had greatly contributed to assist the apostle in his important labours. Instead of Priscilla, the principal MSS. and versions have Prisca, which most critics suppose to be the genuine reading.


 
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