Philemon 1:14
But I did not want to do anything without your consent. I did not want your good deed to be from necessity but from good will.
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15Perhaps for this he was separated from you for a time, so that you might have him back forever.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:17I know also, my God, that you examine the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things, and now I look with joy as your people who are present here willingly offer gifts to you.
1 Corinthians 9:7Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink milk from it?
2 Corinthians 1:24This is not because we are trying to control what your faith should be. Instead, we are working with you for your joy, as you stand in your faith.
2 Corinthians 9:5So I thought it was necessary to urge the brothers to come to you and to make arrangements in advance for the gift you have promised. This is so that it might be ready as a blessing, and not as something extorted.
Philemon 1:8Therefore, although I have all the boldness in Christ to command you to do what you should do,
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 →