Philemon 1:9

Yet out of love I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also the 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

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Love's sake

I exhort you therefore, brethren, by the tender mercies of God, to present your bodies unto God, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable, which is your reasonable service.

Therefore we are embassadors for Christ, as though God were intreating by us: we beseech you, in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

We then, as fellow-labourers, do also exhort you, not to receive the grace of God in vain.

I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you, to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye are called,

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

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly desires,

Prisoner

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

For this cause I Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, (Seeing ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God,

I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you, to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye are called,