Philemon 1:9

for love's sake I rather exhort, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also prisoner of Jesus Christ.

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Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Love's sake

Prisoner

Philemon 1:1

Ephesians 3:1

Ephesians 4:1

Bible References

Love's sake

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your intelligent service.

We are ambassadors therefore for Christ, God as it were beseeching by us, we entreat for Christ, Be reconciled to God.

But as fellow-workmen, we also beseech that ye receive not the grace of God in vain:

I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you therefore to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye have been called,

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

Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Prisoner

Paul, prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timotheus the brother, to Philemon the beloved and our fellow-workman,

For this reason I Paul, prisoner of the Christ Jesus for you nations,

I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you therefore to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye have been called,