Philemon 1:22

Please also get a lodging ready for me, for I hope that I will be given back to you all in answer to your prayers.

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In The King James Version

But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.

In Context

21Even as I write, I have such confidence in your compliance with my wishes, that I am sure that you will do even more than I am asking.

23Epaphras, who is my fellow prisoner for Christ Jesus, sends you his greeting;

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Cross References

Romans 15:24For my hope is to visit you on my journey, and then to be sent on my way by you, after I have first partly satisfied myself by seeing something of you.

2 Corinthians 1:11And then many lips will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us in answer to many prayers.

Philippians 1:25Yes, I am confident that this is so, and therefore I am sure that I will stay, and stay near you all, to promote your progress and joy in the faith;

Hebrews 13:19And I the more earnestly ask for your prayers, so that I may be restored to you the sooner.

James 5:16Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. Great is the power of a good person’s fervent prayer.

3 John 1:14I hope to see you soon, and then we will speak face to face.

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 →

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