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Two Forgotten Women of the Bible
“I plead with Euodia and I plead with Syntyche to agree with each other in the Lord. Yes, and I ask you, loyal yokefellow, help these women who have contended at my side in the cause of the gospel” (Phil. 4:2–3). Got any friends who named their daughters Syntyche? Euodia? Me either. I know plenty who named their girls Joanna or Mary or Martha, and even a Lydia or two. But what about these New Testament women? Why do they get no respect? Only two times in all my years as a Christian have I have heard anyone teach about Euodia and Syntyche. And both times these co-laborers of Paul…