Greetings
Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia. 6 Greet Mary, who worked very hard for you. 7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.
Andronicus and Junia (sometimes called Junias) were probably husband and wife.
Incidentally, the gender of Junia (verse 7) could be debated. The ancient Greek manuscripts didn’t have accent marks, so adding them was a later editorial addition. Junia could be accented as either a man’s name or a woman’s name. Note that in crediting Andronicus and Junia with being “outstanding among the apostles,” Paul is using a wider definition of apostle* than only those who were called directly by Christ himself.
* Paul uses this wider sense when he calls James, the Lord’s brother, an “apostle” (Galatians 1:18,19), as also does Luke in calling Barnabas an
apostle (Acts 14:4,14). In 1 Thessalonians 2:6, Silas and Timothy seem to be included among the apostles.