Euodias

Euodia is a Christian woman in the church at Philippi, named alongside Syntyche in Paul's appeal for unity. UPDV gives the form of her name as Euodia (the older anglicized spelling Euodias preserves the Greek accusative). She is known only from a single sentence.

A plea for shared mind

Paul names her directly and then names Syntyche directly, repeating the verb so neither woman is treated as the disputed party while the other is exhorted: "I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to be of the same mind in the Lord" (Phil 4:2). The exhortation is parallel and even-handed — the same charge is laid on both — and the goal is set "in the Lord," locating the unity sought not in a private settlement between the two but in their common standing before Christ.

Nothing further is said of her circumstances, her role, or the substance of the disagreement. What survives is the apostle's care that two named women in a particular congregation should walk in agreement.