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Philemon

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New American Standard Bible 2020

Philemon 1:8-14

8Therefore, 1though I have 2enough confidence in Christ to order you to do what is 3proper,

9yet for love’s sake I rather 4appeal to you--since I am such a person as Paul, 5an 6old man, and now also 7a prisoner of 8Christ Jesus--

10I 9appeal to you for my 1011son 1213Onesimus, whom I 14fathered in my 15imprisonment,

11who previously was useless to you, but now is useful both to you and to me.

12I have sent him back to you in person, that is, sending my very heart,

13whom I wanted to keep with me, so that in your behalf he might be at my service in my 1617imprisonment for the gospel;

14but I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness would 18not be, in effect, by compulsion, but of your own free will.

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Notes

  1. 1. Philemon 1:8 2 Cor 3:12; 1 Thess 2:6 ↩
  2. 2. Philemon 1:8 Lit much ↩
  3. 3. Philemon 1:8 Eph 5:4 ↩
  4. 4. Philemon 1:9 Rom 12:1 ↩
  5. 5. Philemon 1:9 Or an ambassador ↩
  6. 6. Philemon 1:9 Titus 2:2 ↩
  7. 7. Philemon 1:9 Philem 1 ↩
  8. 8. Philemon 1:9 Gal 3:26; 1 Tim 1:12; Philem 23 ↩
  9. 9. Philemon 1:10 Rom 12:1 ↩
  10. 10. Philemon 1:10 Or child ↩
  11. 11. Philemon 1:10 1 Cor 4:14f ↩
  12. 12. Philemon 1:10 I.e., useful ↩
  13. 13. Philemon 1:10 Col 4:9 ↩
  14. 14. Philemon 1:10 I.e., led to the Lord ↩
  15. 15. Philemon 1:10 Lit bonds ↩
  16. 16. Philemon 1:13 Lit bonds ↩
  17. 17. Philemon 1:13 Phil 1:7; Philem 10 ↩
  18. 18. Philemon 1:14 2 Cor 9:7; 1 Pet 5:2 ↩

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