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 beg you, therefore, brothers, through these mercies God has shown you, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies as a living sacrifice, devoted and well-pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.

So I am an envoy to represent Christ, because it is through me that God is making His appeal. As one representing Christ I beg you, be reconciled to God.

As God's fellow-worker I beg you too not to accept God's favor and throw it away.

So I, a prisoner for the Lord's sake, entreat you to live lives worthy of the call you have received,

And more especially do I beg you to do so, that I may very soon be brought back to you.

Dearly beloved, I beg you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the evil desires of your lower nature, because they are always at war with the soul.

Prisoner

Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and my brother Timothy, to our dearly loved fellow-worker Philemon,

This is why I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of the heathen --

So I, a prisoner for the Lord's sake, entreat you to live lives worthy of the call you have received,