To my dear Christian friend Ampliatus;
And, if you show courtesy to your brothers only, what are you doing more than others? Even the Gentiles do this!
Give my greeting, also, to the Church that meets at their house, as well as to my dear friend Epaenetus, one of the first in Roman Asia to believe in Christ;
To Andronicus and Junias, my countrymen and once my fellow- prisoners, who are men of note among the Apostles, and who became Christians before I did;
To Urban, our fellow-worker in the Cause of Christ, and to my dear friend Stachys;
So then, my dear Brothers, whom I am longing to see--you who are my joy and my crown, stand fast in union with the Lord, dear friends.
We know that we have passed out of Death into Life, because we love our Brothers. The man who does not love remains in a state of Death.
