Philemon 1:19
I Paul write this with my own hand--I will pay you in full. (I say nothing of the fact that you owe me even your own self.)
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
18And if he was ever dishonest or is in your debt, debit me with the amount.
20Yes, brother, do me this favour for the Lord's sake. Refresh my heart in Christ.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:15For even if you were to have ten thousand spiritual instructors--for all that you could not have several fathers. It is I who in Christ Jesus became your father through the Good News.
1 Corinthians 16:21The final greeting of me--Paul--with my own hand.
Galatians 5:2Remember that it is I Paul who tell you that if you receive circumcision Christ will avail you nothing.
1 Timothy 1:2To Timothy, my own true son in the faith. May grace, mercy and peace be granted to you from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
James 5:19My brethren, if one of you strays from the truth and some one brings him back,
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 →