Philemon 1:9 Cross References - Darby

⁹ for love`s sake I rather exhort, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also prisoner of Jesus Christ.

⁹ Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

¹⁸ Now also, when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not, until I have proclaimed thine arm unto [this] generation, thy might to every one that is to come.

³¹ The hoary head is a crown of glory, [if] it is found in the way of righteousness.

⁴ Even to old age, I [am] HE, and unto hoary hairs I will carry [you]: It is I that have made, and I will bear, and I will carry, and will deliver.

¹ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your intelligent service.

²⁰ We are ambassadors therefore for Christ, God as [it were] beseeching by us, we entreat for Christ, Be reconciled to God.

¹ But [as] fellow-workmen, we also beseech that ye receive not the grace of God in vain:

¹ For this reason *I* Paul, prisoner of the Christ Jesus for you nations,

¹ *I*, the prisoner in [the] Lord, exhort you therefore to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye have been called,

¹ Paul, prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timotheus the brother, to Philemon the beloved and our fellow-workman, ² and to the sister Apphia and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the assembly which [is] in thine house. ³ Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and [the] Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴ I thank my God, always making mention of thee at my prayers, ⁵ hearing of thy love and the faith which thou hast towards the Lord Jesus, and towards all the saints, ⁶ in such sort that thy participation in the faith should become operative in the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in us towards Christ [Jesus]. ⁷ For we have great thankfulness and encouragement through thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother. ⁸ Wherefore having much boldness in Christ to enjoin thee what is fitting, ⁹ for love`s sake I rather exhort, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also prisoner of Jesus Christ. ¹⁰ I exhort thee for *my* child, whom I have begotten in [my] bonds, Onesimus, ¹¹ once unserviceable to thee, but now serviceable to thee and to me: ¹² whom I have sent back to thee: [but do *thou* receive] him, that is, *my* bowels: ¹³ whom *I* was desirous of keeping with myself, that for thee he might minister to me in the bonds of the glad tidings; ¹⁴ but I have wished to do nothing without thy mind, that thy good might not be as of necessity but of willingness: ¹⁵ for perhaps for this reason he has been separated [from thee] for a time, that thou mightest possess him fully for ever; ¹⁶ not any longer as a bondman, but above a bondman, a beloved brother, specially to me, and how much rather to thee, both in [the] flesh and in [the] Lord? ¹⁷ If therefore thou holdest me to be a partner [with thee], receive him as me; ¹⁸ but if he have wronged thee anything or owe anything [to thee], put this to my account. ¹⁹ *I* Paul have written [it] with mine own hand; *I* will repay [it]: that I say not to thee that thou owest even thine own self also to me. ²⁰ Yea, brother, *I* would have profit of *thee* in [the] Lord: refresh my bowels in Christ. ²¹ Being confident of thine obedience, I have written to thee, knowing that thou wilt do even more than I say. ²² But withal prepare me also a lodging; for I hope that I shall be granted to you through your prayers. ²³ Epaphras salutes thee, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus; ²⁴ Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow-workmen. ²⁵ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit.

¹⁹ But I much more beseech [you] to do this, that I may the more quickly be restored to you.

¹¹ Beloved, I exhort [you], as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;