Philemon 1:16 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹⁶ not as a slave any longer but more than a slave, a dear brother—dear especially to me, but how much dearer to you, both as a man and as a Christian!

⁸ But you must not let people call you 'Rabbi,' for you have only one teacher, and you are all brothers.

¹⁷ Ananias set out and went to the house, and there he laid his hands upon Saul, and said to him, "Saul, my brother, I have been sent by the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on your journey, so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the holy Spirit."

²² For a slave who has been called to union with the Lord is a freedman of the Lord, just as a free man who has been called is a slave of Christ.

²⁸ Now we, brothers, are like Isaac, children born in fulfilment of the promise. ²⁹ But just as then the child born in the ordinary course of nature persecuted the one born through the influence of the Spirit, so it is today.

⁵ You who are slaves, obey your earthly masters, in reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would the Christ, ⁶ not with mere external service, as though you had only men to please, but like slaves of Christ, carrying out the will of God. ⁷ Do your duties heartily and willingly, as though it were for the Lord, not for men,

²² You who are slaves must always obey your earthly masters, not with mere external service, as though you had only men to please, but with sincerity of heart, because you fear the Lord.

² Those who have Christian masters must not think lightly of them because they are brothers; they must serve them all the more faithfully, because those who benefit by it are believers and hence dear to them. These are the things you must teach and preach.

¹ Therefore, my fellow-Christians, who have likewise heard the heavenly invitation, observe how faithful Jesus, the commissioner and high priest of our religion,

²² Now that by obeying the truth you have purified your souls for sincere love of the brotherhood, you must love one another intensely and heartily, ²³ for you have been born anew from a germ not perishable, but imperishable, through the message of the living, everlasting God.

¹ Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves those who are his children.