Philemon 1:9

Catholic Public Domain Version

but I beg you instead, for the sake of charity, since you are so much like Paul: an old man and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Cross References

Psalm 71:18

Blessed is the Lord, God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things.

Psalm 71:9

In his sight, the Ethiopians will fall prostrate, and his enemies will lick the ground.

Proverbs 16:31

Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.

Isaiah 46:4

Even to your old age, I am the same. And even with your grey hairs, I will carry you. I have made you, and I will sustain you. I will carry you, and I will save you.

Romans 12:1

And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind.

2 Corinthians 5:20

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, so that God is exhorting through us. We beseech you for Christ: be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 6:1

But, as a help to you, we exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Galatians 3:26

For you are all sons of God, through the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 3:1

By reason of this grace, I, Paul, am a prisoner of Jesus Christ, for the sake of you Gentiles.

Ephesians 4:1

And so, as a prisoner in the Lord, I beg you to walk in a manner worthy of the vocation to which you have been called:

Ephesians 6:20

in such a manner that I may dare to speak exactly as I ought to speak. For I act as an ambassador in chains for the Gospel.

1 Timothy 1:12

I give thanks to him who has strengthened me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he has considered me faithful, placing me in the ministry,

Titus 2:2

Old men should be sober, chaste, prudent, sound in faith, in love, in patience.

Hebrews 13:19

And I beg you, all the more, to do this, so that I may be quickly returned to you.

1 Peter 2:11

Most beloved, I beg you, as new arrivals and sojourners, to abstain from carnal desires, which battle against the soul.

Judges 21:22

And when their fathers and brothers arrive, and they begin to complain against you and to argue, we will say to them: 'Take pity on them. For they have not seized them by right of war or conquest. Instead, begging to receive them, you did not give them, and so the sin was on your part.' "