American King James Version
"Yet for love’s sake I rather beseech you, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. "
— Philemon 1:9, American King James Version
“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.”
“yet for love’s sake I rather beseech, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus: ”
“yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.”
“I would rather appeal to you on the basis of love– I, Paul, an old man and even now a prisoner for the sake of Christ Jesus–”
“For charity sake I rather beseech, whereas thou art such a one, as Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also of Jesus Christ.”
“Still, because of love, in place of an order, I make a request to you, I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner of Christ Jesus:”
“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.”
That the communication of your faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
For we have great joy and consolation in your love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by you, brother.
Why, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin you that which is convenient,
Yet for love’s sake I rather beseech you, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
I beseech you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
Which in time past was to you unprofitable, but now profitable to you and to me:
Whom I have sent again: you therefore receive him, that is, my own bowels: