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Philemon 1:9

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I would rather ask you this favor out of love. Old Paul, now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus,

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Even though I'm old and gray, please don't abandon me, God. Let me tell the new generation about your power. Let me explain to all who are to come the great things you do.

Don't reject me now I'm getting old. When my strength is gone, please don't abandon me.

Gray hair is a glorious crown; it's achieved by living right.

Even when you're old, I will still be your God; even when your hair turns white, I will still support you. I made you, I will carry you, I will support you, and I will save you.

So I encourage you, my brothers and sisters, because of God's compassion for you, to dedicate your bodies as a living offering that is holy and pleasing to God. This is the logical way to worship.

So we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God is pleading through us: “Please, won't you come back and be God's friend?”

As workers together with God we also plead with you not to make your acceptance of God's grace worthless.

For you are all God's children through your trust in Christ Jesus.

This is why, I, Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ for the sake of you foreigners,

So I—this prisoner in the Lord—am encouraging you to make sure you live according to the principles to which you were called.

I'm an imprisoned ambassador for the sake of the good news, so please pray that I will speak fearlessly, as I should.

I'm just so grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord for the strength he's given me, and that he considered me trustworthy, appointing me to work for him.

Older men shouldn't drink; they should be respectable and sensible, with a healthy trust in God, loving and patient.

I really want you to pray hard so that I can come back to see you soon.

My friends, I'm pleading with you as foreigners and strangers in this world not to give in to physical desires that are in conflict with what is spiritual.

If their fathers or brothers come complaining to us, we'll tell them, ‘Please do us a favor, because we couldn't find enough wives for them in the war. And it's not as if you're guilty of breaking the oath since you didn't give them in marriage.’”




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