Philemon 1:9 Cross References - Coverdale

⁹ yet for loues sake I rather beseke ye, though I be as I am, eue Paul aged, and now a presoner also of Iesu Christ.

⁹ For myne enemies speake agaynst me, & they that laye wayte for my soule, take their councell together, sayenge: God hath forsake him, persecute him, take him, for there is none to helpe him.

¹⁸ O what greate troubles & aduersite hast thou shewed me? & yet didest thou turne & refresh me, yee & broughtest me from the depe of the earth agayne.

³¹ Age is a crowne of worshipe, yf it be founde in the waye of righteousnes.

⁴ I I which shall beare you vnto youre last age: I haue made you, I will also norish you, beare you and saue you.

¹ I beseke you brethre by the mercyfulnesse of God, that ye geue ouer youre bodies for a sacrifice, yt is quycke holy, and acceptable vnto God, which is yor reasonable seruynge off God.

²⁰ Now the are we messaungers in the rowme of Christ, euen as though God exhorted by vs. We beseke you now therfore in Christes steade, that ye be at one with God:

¹ We as helpers therfore exhorte you, that ye receaue not ye grace of God in vayne.

¹ For this cause I Paul am a presoner of Iesus Christ for you Heythen,

¹ I therfore which am presoner in the LORDE, exhorte you, that ye walke as it becometh yor callinge wherin ye are called,

¹ Paul the presoner of Iesu Christ, and brother Timotheus. Vnto Philemon the beloued, and oure helper, ² and to the beloued Appia, and to Archippus or felowe soudyer, and to the congregacion in thy house. ³ Grace be with you, and peace from God oure father and from the LORDE Iesus Christ. ⁴ I thanke my God, makynge mencion allwayes of the in my prayers ⁵ (for so moch as I heare of thy loue and faith which thou hast on the LORDE Iesu, and towarde all sayntes) ⁶ that oure comen faith maye be frutefull in the, thorow knowlege of all ye good that ye haue in Christ Iesu. ⁷ Greate ioye and consolacion haue I in thy loue. For by the (brother) the sayntes are hertely refresshed. ⁸ Wherfore though I haue great boldnes in Christ to commaunde the that which becommeth the, ⁹ yet for loues sake I rather beseke ye, though I be as I am, eue Paul aged, and now a presoner also of Iesu Christ. ¹⁰ I beseke the for my sonne Onesimus (whom I haue begotten in my bondes) ¹¹ which in tyme past was to the vnprofitable, but now profitable both to the and me. ¹² Whom I haue sent agayne: but receaue thou him (that is) euen myne awne hert. ¹³ For I wolde haue kepte him styll with me, that in thy steade he might haue mynistred vnto me in ye bondes of ye Gospell: ¹⁴ Neuertheles without thy mynde wolde I do nothinge, that ye good which thou doest, shulde not be of compulsion, but wyllingly. ¹⁵ Happly he therfore departed for a season, that thou shuldest receaue him for euer: ¹⁶ not now as a seruaunt, but aboue a seruaunt, euen a brother beloued, specially to me, but how moch more vnto ye, both in ye flesh and in the LORDE? ¹⁷ Yf thou holde me for thy companyon, receaue him then euen as my selfe. ¹⁸ But yf he haue hurte the, or oweth the oughte, that laye to my charge. ¹⁹ I Paul haue wrytten it with myne awne hande. I wil recompence it: so that I do not saye vnto ye, how that thou owest vnto me euen thine owne selfe. ²⁰ Euen so brother, let me enioye the in the LORDE: refresh thou my hert in the LORDE. ²¹ Trustinge in thine obediece, I haue wrytten vnto the, for I knowe that thou wilt do more then I saye. ²² Morouer prepare me lodginge, for I hope that thorow youre prayers I shalbe geuen vnto you. ²³ There saluteth the, Epaphras my felowe presoner in Christ Iesu, ²⁴ Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my helpers. ²⁵ The grace of oure LORDE Iesu Christ be with youre sprete, Amen.

¹⁹ But I desyre you ye more abundauntly, that ye so do, yt I maye be restored vnto you the more quyckly.

¹¹ Dearly beloued, I beseke you as straungers and pilgrems, absteyne fro the fleshly lustes, which fighte agaynst the soule,