You know about Stephanas and his family; they are the first Christian converts in Achaia and have given themselves to the service of God's people. I beg you, my friends,

I am happy about the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; they have made up for your absence

After she and the people of her house had been baptized, she invited us, "Come and stay in my house if you have decided that I am a true believer in the Lord." And she persuaded us to go.

At that very hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; and he and all his family were baptized at once.