Parallel Verses

Goodspeed New Testament

I ask this of you more especially that I may be brought back to you the sooner.

New American Standard Bible

And I urge you all the more to do this, so that I may be restored to you the sooner.

King James Version

But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Holman Bible

And I especially urge you to pray that I may be restored to you very soon.

International Standard Version

I especially ask you to do this so that I may be brought back to you sooner.

A Conservative Version

But I urge you to do this even more, so that I may be restored to you sooner.

American Standard Version

And I exhort you the more exceedingly to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Amplified

And I urge all of you to pray earnestly, so that I may be restored to you soon.

An Understandable Version

And I urge you people earnestly to do this [i.e., pray for me], so that I can be sent back to you sooner [i.e., by God's providence].

Anderson New Testament

And I the more earnestly entreat you to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Bible in Basic English

I make this request more strongly, in the hope of coming back to you more quickly.

Common New Testament

I urge you all the more to do this so that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Daniel Mace New Testament

I conjure you the more earnestly to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Darby Translation

But I much more beseech you to do this, that I may the more quickly be restored to you.

Godbey New Testament

But I the more exhort you to do this, that I may the more speedily be restored unto you.

John Wesley New Testament

And I beseech you to do this the more earnestly, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Julia Smith Translation

And I beseech the more abundantly to do this, that I might the more speedily be restored to you.

King James 2000

But I beseech you rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And I especially urge [you] to do this, so that I may be restored to you more quickly.

Modern King James verseion

But I beseech you the rather to do this, so that I may be more quickly restored to you.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I desire you therefore somewhat the more abundantly, that ye so do, that I may be restored to you quickly.

Moffatt New Testament

I urge you to this all the more, that I may get back to you the sooner.

Montgomery New Testament

I the more earnestly ask for your prayers, that I may be the more speedily restored to you.

NET Bible

I especially ask you to pray that I may be restored to you very soon.

New Heart English Bible

I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.

Noyes New Testament

but I the more earnestly entreat you to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Sawyer New Testament

And I exhort you do this the more, that I may sooner be restored to you.

The Emphasized Bible

But, much more abundantly, do I exhort you the same to do, that, more speedily, I may be restored, unto you.

Twentieth Century New Testament

And I the more earnestly ask for your prayers, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Webster

But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Weymouth New Testament

I specially urge this upon you in order that I may be the more speedily restored to you.

Williams New Testament

And more especially do I beg you to do so, that I may very soon be brought back to you.

World English Bible

I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.

Worrell New Testament

And I the more earnestly exhort you to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Worsley New Testament

And I the more earnestly intreat you to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Youngs Literal Translation

and more abundantly do I call upon you to do this, that more quickly I may be restored to you.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
But
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

παρακαλέω 
Parakaleo 
Usage: 102

you the rather
περισσοτέρως 
Perissoteros 
Usage: 13

to do
ποιέω 
Poieo 
do, make, bring forth, commit, cause, work, show, bear, keep, fulfil, deal, perform, not tr, , vr do
Usage: 372

τοῦτο 
Touto 
Usage: 232

ἵνα 
Hina 
that, to,
Usage: 472

I may be restored
ἀποκαθίστημι 
Apokathistemi 
Usage: 6

to you
ὑμῖν 
Humin 
you, ye, your, not tr,
Usage: 293

References

Context Readings

Concluding Ethical Instructions

18 Pray for me, for I am sure I have a clear conscience, and I mean in every way to live an upright life. 19 I ask this of you more especially that I may be brought back to you the sooner. 20 May God, the giver of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus who through the blood by which he ratified the everlasting agreement has become the great shepherd of the sheep,

Cross References

Romans 1:10-12

and to ask that somehow by God's will I may some day at last succeed in reaching you.

Romans 15:31-32

Pray that I may escape from those in Judea who are disobedient, and that the help I am taking to Jerusalem may be well received by God's people,

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