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title: 1 Corinthians 16:19
url: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/1-corinthians-16-19/
markdown: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/1-corinthians-16-19.md
type: verse
perspective: Protestant (historic Nicene) response to Jehovah's Witness teaching
reference: 1 Corinthians 16:19
testament: NT
section: Letters
index: https://jw-apologetics.app/llms.txt
---

# 1 Corinthians 16:19

## Text (Berean Standard Bible)

> The churches in the province of Asia send you greetings.  Aquila and Prisca greet you warmly in the Lord, and so does the church that meets at their house.

## JW Usage

The Watchtower acknowledges Aquila and Priscilla as first-century Christians but does not emphasise the verse's implication for early church architecture: the congregation "in their house." Meeting locations in the first century are generally not pressed because the Watchtower needs a model in which a central organisation dictates meeting structure — the house-church pattern of the NT is in tension with the Kingdom Hall model and the annual assembly programme.

## Protestant Usage

1 Corinthians 16:19 is a data point in the NT picture of how first-century Christians actually met: in homes. Pair with Romans 16:5, Colossians 4:15, and Philemon 1:2 — house churches, not purpose-built meeting halls, not central programmes, not uniform Watchtower-directed content. Use alongside the Hebrews 10:25 argument at the door: "Paul's own closing greeting in 1 Corinthians 16 is from the congregation IN a house. The New Testament pattern is small, organic, local fellowship — not mandatory attendance at a centrally-programmed building. The Watchtower reads 'meetings' back into Hebrews 10:25, but what the apostles actually describe is much closer to what Protestants call a home group than to Kingdom Hall programming."

## Arguments Using This Verse

- [Meeting Attendance Is Not What Hebrews 10:25 Commands](https://jw-apologetics.app/arguments/hebrews-10-25-meetings.md) — Hebrews 10:24-25 / Romans 16:5 / Colossians 4:15 [Practice]