Philemon 1:9

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Summary

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 mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech you on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

And working together with him we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,

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

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;

Prisoner

Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow-worker,

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,--

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,