¹⁶ If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no other practice—nor do the churches of God.^(A)

³³ For God is not a God of disorder^(A) but of peace^(B)—as in all the congregations^(C) of the Lord’s people.^(D)

¹⁸ And we are sending along with him the brother^(A) who is praised by all the churches^(B) for his service to the gospel.^(C)

²⁸ Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.^(A)

²² I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea^(A) that are in Christ.^(B)

¹⁴ For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators^(A) of God’s churches in Judea,^(B) which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people^(C) the same things those churches suffered from the Jews

⁴ Therefore, among God’s churches we boast^(A) about your perseverance and faith^(B) in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.^(C)