I encourage you, brethren; you know the household of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have appointed themselves to the ministry of the saints;

I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus, for what was lacking on your part they supplied.

And when she and her household were immersed, she begged us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay. So she persuaded us.

And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family were immersed.