Romans 16:16

Easy-to-Read Version

Give each other the special greeting of God's people. All the churches that belong to Christ send their greetings to you.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send you greetings.

King James Version (1611)
Salute one another with an holy kisse. The Churches of Christ salute you.

King James Version
Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.

English Standard Version
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

New American Standard Bible
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

New Century Version
Greet each other with a holy kiss. All of Christ's churches send greetings to you.

Amplified Bible
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

Legacy Standard Bible
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

Berean Standard Bible
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send you greetings.

Contemporary English Version
Be sure to give each other a warm greeting. All of Christ's churches greet you.

Complete Jewish Bible
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the Messiah's congregations send their greetings to you.

Darby Translation
Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the assemblies of Christ salute you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Salute one another with an holy kisse. The Churches of Christ salute you.

George Lamsa Translation
Salute one another with a holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.

Good News Translation
Greet one another with the kiss of peace. All the churches of Christ send you their greetings.

Lexham English Bible
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

Literal Translation
Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet you.

American Standard Version
Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.

Bible in Basic English
Give one another a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send their love to you.

Hebrew Names Version
Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Messiah greet you.

International Standard Version
Greet one another with a holy kiss.[fn] All the churches of Christ greet you.1 Corinthians 16:20; 2 Corinthians 13:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:26; 1 Peter 5:14;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Ask for the peace one of another with the holy kiss. All the churches of the Meshiha ask for your peace.

Murdock Translation
Salute one another, with a holy kiss. All the churches of Messiah salute you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Salute one an other with an holy kysse. The Churches of Christ salute you.

English Revised Version
Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.

World English Bible
Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet you.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.

Weymouth's New Testament
Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the Churches of Christ send greetings to you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Grete ye wel togidere in hooli coss. Alle the chirches of Crist greten you wel.

Update Bible Version
Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Salute one another with a holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.

New English Translation
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

New King James Version
Greet one another with a holy kiss. The [fn] churches of Christ greet you.

New Living Translation
Greet each other with a sacred kiss. All the churches of Christ send you their greetings.

New Life Bible
Greet each other with a kiss of holy love. All the churches here greet you.

New Revised Standard
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Salute ye one another, with a holy a kiss. All the assemblies of the Christ salute you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Salute one another with an holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.

Revised Standard Version
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Salute one another with an holy kysse. The congregacions of Christ salute you.

Young's Literal Translation
salute one another in a holy kiss; the assemblies of Christ do salute you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Salute one another wt an holy kysse. The cogregacions of Christ salute you.

Mace New Testament (1729)
salute one anther with an holy kiss. all the churches of Christ here, salute you.

THE MESSAGE
Holy embraces all around! All the churches of Christ send their warmest greetings!

Simplified Cowboy Version
Give them all a hug and a hand shake. All the outfits I've started send their best.

Contextual Overview

¹ I want you to know that you can trust our sister in Christ, Phoebe. She is a special servant of the church in Cenchrea. ² I ask you to accept her in the Lord. Accept her the way God's people should. Help her with anything she needs from you. She has helped me very much, and she has helped many others too. ³ Give my greetings to Priscilla and Aquila, who have worked together with me for Christ Jesus. ⁴ They risked their own lives to save mine. I am thankful to them, and all the non-Jewish churches are thankful to them. ⁵ Also, give greetings to the church that meets in their house. Give greetings to my dear friend Epaenetus. He was the first person to follow Christ in Asia. ⁶ Greetings also to Mary. She worked very hard for you. ⁷ And greet Andronicus and Junia. They are my relatives, and they were in prison with me. They were followers of Christ before I was. And they are some of the most important of the ones Christ sent out to do his work. ⁸ Give my greetings to Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord, ⁹ and to Urbanus. He has worked together with me for Christ. Give greetings also to my dear friend Stachys ¹⁰ and to Apelles, who has proved himself to be a true follower of Christ. Give greetings to everyone in the family of Aristobulus

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

with: Acts 20:37, 1 Corinthians 16:20, 2 Corinthians 13:12, 1 Thessalonians 5:26, 1 Peter 5:14

The: Romans 16:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 29:11 - kissed Genesis 29:13 - kissed Luke 7:45 - gavest Acts 20:1 - embraced 2 Corinthians 13:13 - General Philippians 4:22 - the

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Salute one another with an holy kiss,.... Christian salutation is a wishing all temporal, spiritual, and eternal happiness, to one another; and which, as it should be mutual, should be also hearty and sincere, and this is meant by the "holy kiss"; the allusion is to a common custom in most nations, used by friends at meeting or parting, to kiss each other, in token of their hearty love, and sincere affection and friendship for each other; and is called "holy", to distinguish it from an unchaste and lascivious one; and from an hypocritical and deceitful one, such an one as Joab gave to Amasa, when, inquiring of his health, he took him by the beard to kiss him, and stabbed him under the fifth rib, 2 Samuel 20:9; and as Judas, who cried, hail master, to Christ, and kissed him, and betrayed him into the hands of his enemies, Matthew 26:49. I say, it is an allusion to this custom, for it is only an allusion; the apostle did not mean that any outward action should be made use of, only that their Christian salutations should not be mere complaisance, or expressed by bare words, and outward gestures and actions, either of the hand or mouth; but that they should spring from real love and true friendship, and be without dissimulation, hearty and sincere:

the churches of Christ salute you. The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions read, "all the churches"; that is, in Greece, or in the neighbourhood where the apostle was, and who might know of his writing to this church, and thereby send their Christian salutations to it; or if they did not know of his writing, yet as he knew their sincere affections, and hearty good will to this church, and the members of it, he in their names sent greetings to them: this shows the communion of churches, and how they ought to wish and sincerely desire each other's welfare.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Salute one another - Greet one another in an affectionate mannner; that is, treat each other with kindness and love, and evince all proper marks of affection.

With an holy kiss - This mode of salutation has been practiced at all times; and particularly in eastern nations. It was even practiced by “men;” see the note at Luke 22:47-48. The use of the word “holy” here serves to denote that Paul intended it as an expression of “Christian” affection; and to guard against all improper familiarity and scandal. It was common, according to Justin Martyr (Apology), for the early Christians to practice it in their religious assemblies.

The churches of Christ - That is, the churches in the vicinity of the place where the apostle wrote this Epistle; probably the churches particularly in Achaia.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 16:16. Salute one another with a holy kiss. — In those early times the kiss, as a token of peace, friendship, and brotherly love, was frequent among all people; and the Christians used it in their public assemblies, as well as in their occasional meetings. This was at last laid aside, not because it was abused, but because, the Church becoming very numerous, the thing was impossible. In some countries the kiss of friendship is still common; and in such countries it is scarcely ever abused, nor is it an incentive to evil, because it is customary and common. Shaking of hands is now substituted for it in almost all Christian congregations.

The Churches of Christ salute you. — The word πασαι, ALL, is added here by some of the most reputable MSS. and principal versions; and Griesbach has received it into his text. St. Paul must mean, here, that all the Churches in Greece and Asia, through which he had passed, in which the faith of the Christians at Rome was known, spoke of them affectionately and honourably; and probably knowing the apostle's design of visiting Rome, desired to be kindly remembered to the Church in that city.