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Philemon 1:9

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

But I am not commanding you; I am asking you to do it out of love. I, Paul, am an old man now, and I am a prisoner for Christ Jesus.

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So, as a prisoner for the Lord, I beg you to live the way God’s people should live, because he chose you to be his.

So we have been sent to speak for Christ. It is like God is calling to people through us. We speak for Christ when we beg you to be at peace with God.

So I beg you, brothers and sisters, because of the great mercy God has shown us, offer your lives as a living sacrifice to him—an offering that is only for God and pleasing to him. Considering what he has done, it is only right that you should worship him in this way.

So I, Paul, am a prisoner because I serve Christ Jesus for you who are not Jews.

Dear friends, you are like visitors and strangers in this world. So I beg you to keep your lives free from the evil things you want to do, those desires that fight against your true selves.

And I beg you to pray that God will send me back to you soon. I want this more than anything else.

We are workers together with God. So we beg you: Don’t let the grace that you received from God be for nothing.

and I will still be carrying you when you are old. Your hair will turn gray, and I will still carry you. I made you, and I will carry you to safety.

Gray hair is a crown of glory on people who have lived good lives. It is earned by living right.

Now that I am old and my hair is gray, don’t leave me, God. I must tell the next generation about your power and greatness.

Don’t throw me away just because I am old. Don’t leave me as I lose my strength.

You were all baptized into Christ, and so you were all clothed with Christ. This shows that you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

I have the work of speaking for that Good News, and that is what I am doing now, here in prison. Pray that when I tell people the Good News, I will speak without fear as I should.

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord because he trusted me and gave me this work of serving him. He gives me strength.

Teach the older men to have self-control, to be serious, and to be wise. They must be strong in faith, in love, and in patience.

The fathers or brothers of the young women will come and complain to us. But we will say, ‘Be kind to the men of Benjamin. Let them marry the women. We could not get wives for each of them during the war. And you did not willingly give the women to the men of Benjamin, so you did not break your promise.’”




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