Philemon 1:9
yet, on account of my love, I rather exhort you, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner on account of Jesus Christ.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
8Wherefore, though I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do that which is becoming,
10I beseech you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds,
Cross References
2 Corinthians 5:20Therefore, we act as ambassadors for Christ, as though God entreated through us; we beseech in Christ’s stead, be reconciled to God:
Ephesians 3:1For this reason, I Paul, the prisoner of the Christ Jesus on account of you Gentiles,
Philemon 1:1Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy my brother, to Philemon my beloved, and our fellow-laborer,
Matthew Henry on Philemon 1:9-25
The Apostle's Plea for Onesimus; Salutations. ( a. d. 62.) 8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, 9 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. 10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: 11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: 12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels: 13… Read the whole commentary →