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The Relationship Between Husband and Wife
The ESV says they're well known to the apostles. That is a possible reading of the Greek. There are some people who have argued very strenuously for that reading. Paul was not a huge fan of the other apostles and didn't really care what the other apostles thought. The verse would fit with Paul's rhetorical bent elsewhere of always wanting to remind everybody that he is the last one who gets to be an apostle. Andronicus and Yuna were in Christ before me, so I think that this verse is set up and the way Paul's interpreting it pretty firmly in the direction of the church.