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Philemon 1:20

Good News Translation

So, my brother, please do me this favor for the Lord's sake; as a brother in Christ, cheer me up!

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and have cheered me up, just as they cheered you up. Such men as these deserve notice.

For if I were to make you sad, who would be left to cheer me up? Only the very persons I had made sad.

That is why we were encouraged. Not only were we encouraged; how happy Titus made us with his happiness over the way in which all of you helped to cheer him up!

God is my witness that I tell the truth when I say that my deep feeling for you all comes from the heart of Christ Jesus himself.

So then, my friends, how dear you are to me and how I miss you! How happy you make me, and how proud I am of you!—this, dear friends, is how you should stand firm in your life in the Lord.

I am sending him back to you now, and with him goes my heart.

Your love, dear brother, has brought me great joy and much encouragement! You have cheered the hearts of all of God's people.

Obey your leaders and follow their orders. They watch over your souls without resting, since they must give to God an account of their service. If you obey them, they will do their work gladly; if not, they will do it with sadness, and that would be of no help to you.

If we are rich and see others in need, yet close our hearts against them, how can we claim that we love God?

Nothing makes me happier than to hear that my children live in the truth.




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