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, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you receive not the grace of God in vain.

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation by which you are called,

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

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Prisoner

Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellow laborer,

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation by which you are called,