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# Romans 16

Romans 16 is chapter 16 of 16 in the Letter to the Romans. Here are all 27 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> He concludes with salutations, bidding them beware of all that should oppose the doctrine they had learned.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Romans 16 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is in the ministry of the church, which is at Cenchreae,
2. so that you may receive her in the Lord with the worthiness of the saints, and so that you may be of assistance to her in whatever task she will have need of you. For she herself has also assisted many, and myself also.
3. Greet Prisca and Aquila, my helpers in Christ Jesus,
4. who have risked their own necks on behalf of my life, for whom I give thanks, not I alone, but also all the churches of the Gentiles;
5. and greet the church at their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is among the first-fruits of Asia in Christ.
6. Greet Mary, who has labored much among you.
7. Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow captives, who are noble among the Apostles, and who were in Christ prior to me.
8. Greet Ampliatus, most beloved to me in the Lord.
9. Greet Urbanus, our helper in Christ Jesus, and Stachys, my beloved.
10. Greet Apelles, who has been tested in Christ.
11. Greet those who are from the household of Aristobulus. Greet Herodian, my kinsman. Greet those who are of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.
12. Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, most beloved, who has labored much in the Lord.
13. Greet Rufus, elect in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
14. Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brothers who are with them.
15. Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.
16. Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
17. But I beg you, brothers, to take note of those who cause dissensions and offenses contrary to the doctrine that you have learned, and to turn away from them.
18. For ones such as these do not serve Christ our Lord, but their inner selves, and, through pleasing words and skillful speaking, they seduce the hearts of the innocent.
19. But your obedience has been made known in every place. And so, I rejoice in you. But I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple in what is evil.
20. And may the God of peace quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
21. Timothy, my fellow laborer, greets you, and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.
22. I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, greet you in the Lord.
23. Gaius, my host, and the entire church, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, and Quartus, a brother.
24. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
25. But to him who is able to confirm you according to my Gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, in accord with the revelation of the mystery which has been hidden from time immemorial,
26. (which now has been made clear through the Scriptures of the Prophets, in accord with the precept of the eternal God, unto the obedience of faith) which has been made known among all the Gentiles:
27. to God, who alone is wise, through Jesus Christ, to him be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

## Romans 16 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Commendo autem vobis Phœben sororem nostram, quæ est in ministerio ecclesiæ, quæ est in Cenchris:
2. ut eam suscipiatis in Domino digne sanctis: et assistatis ei in quocumque negotio vestri indiguerit: etenim ipsa quoque astitit multis, et mihi ipsi.
3. Salutate Priscam et Aquilam, adjutores meos in Christo Jesu
4. (qui pro anima mea suas cervices supposuerunt: quibus non solus ego gratias ago, sed et cunctæ ecclesiæ gentium),
5. et domesticam ecclesiam eorum. Salutate Epænetum dilectum mihi, qui est primitivus Asiæ in Christo.
6. Salutate Mariam, quæ multum laboravit in vobis.
7. Salutate Andronicum et Juniam, cognatos, et concaptivos meos: qui sunt nobiles in Apostolis, qui et ante me fuerunt in Christo.
8. Salutate Ampliatum dilectissimum mihi in Domino.
9. Salutate Urbanum adjutorem nostrum in Christo Jesu, et Stachyn dilectum meum.
10. Salutate Apellen probum in Christo.
11. Salutate eos qui sunt ex Aristoboli domo. Salutate Herodionem cognatum meum. Salutate eos qui sunt ex Narcisi domo, qui sunt in Domino.
12. Salutate Tryphænam et Tryphosam, quæ laborant in Domino. Salutate Persidem carissimam, quæ multum laboravit in Domino.
13. Salutate Rufum electum in Domino, et matrem ejus, et meam.
14. Salutate Asyncritum, Phlegontem, Hermam, Patrobam, Hermen, et qui cum eis sunt, fratres.
15. Salutate Philologum et Juliam, Nereum, et sororem ejus, et Olympiadem, et omnes qui cum eis sunt, sanctos.
16. Salutate invicem in osculo sancto. Salutant vos omnes ecclesiæ Christi.
17. Rogo autem vos fratres, ut observetis eos qui dissensiones et offendicula, præter doctrinam, quam vos didicistis, faciunt, et declinate ab illis.
18. Hujuscemodi enim Christo Domino nostro non serviunt, sed suo ventri: et per dulces sermones et benedictiones seducunt corda innocentium.
19. Vestra enim obedientia in omnem locum divulgata est. Gaudeo igitur in vobis. Sed volo vos sapientes esse in bono, et simplices in malo.
20. Deus autem pacis conterat Satanam sub pedibus vestris velociter. Gratia Domini nostri Jesu Christi vobiscum.
21. Salutat vos Timotheus adjutor meus, et Lucius, et Jason, et Sosipater cognati mei.
22. Saluto vos ego Tertius, qui scripsi epistolam, in Domino.
23. Salutat vos Cajus hospes meus, et universa ecclesia. Salutat vos Erastus arcarius civitatis, et Quartus, frater.
24. Gratia Domini nostri Jesu Christi cum omnibus vobis. Amen.
25. Ei autem, qui potens est vos confirmare juxta Evangelium meum, et prædicationem Jesu Christi, secundum revelationem mysterii temporibus æternis taciti
26. (quod nunc patefactum est per Scripturas prophetarum secundum præceptum æterni Dei, ad obeditionem fidei), in cunctis gentibus cogniti,
27. soli sapienti Deo, per Jesum Christum, cui honor et gloria in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 674: He Will Come Again in Glory ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2641: Prayer of Praise ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 143: Man's Response To God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1204: Liturgical Diversity and the Unity of the Mystery ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2087: "You Shall Worship the Lord Your God and Him Only Shall You Serve" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sun, Dec 20, 2026: Fourth Sunday of Advent — Second Reading, Romans 16:25-27
- Sat, Nov 6, 2027 (computed): Saturday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Romans 16:3-9, 16, 22-27

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).