Philemon 1:13
whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.
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Philemon 1:13
whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.
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Philemon 1:1
Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,
Philemon 1:8
Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,
Philemon 1:9
yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
Philemon 1:10
I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have become the father of in my chains,
Philemon 1:11
who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.
Philemon 1:12
I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
Philemon 1:13
whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.
Philemon 1:14
But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.
Philemon 1:15
For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while that you would have him forever,
Philemon 1:16
no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
Philemon 1:17
If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.
Philemon 1:18
But if he has wronged you at all or owes you anything, put that to my account.
Philemon 1:19
I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).
Philemon 1:23
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,
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Ephesians 3:1
For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,
Ephesians 6:20
for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Ephesians 4:1
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
Acts 26:29
Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”
2 Timothy 2:9
in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.
Acts 28:20
For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”
Philippians 1:7
It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.
2 Timothy 1:16
May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,
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Philippians 2:30
because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
1 Corinthians 16:17
I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; for that which was lacking on your part, they supplied.
2 Corinthians 11:9
When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
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Acts 13:5
When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed God’s word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their attendant.
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