Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

Bible References

In thy stead

1 Corinthians 16:17
I rejoice in the arrival of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus; because what was lacking from you, they have supplied.
Philippians 2:30
for in the work of Christ he was nigh unto death indifferent about life, that he might afford me that service which it was not in your power to render me.

The bonds

Philemon 1:1
PAUL, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy a brother, to Philemon the beloved, and our fellow-labourer,
Ephesians 3:1
FOR this cause [am] I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
Ephesians 4:1
I THEN, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you, that ye walk worthy of the vocation with which ye are called,