So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.
Philemon 1:9 - English Standard Version 2016 yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus— Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you just for what I am–I, Paul, an ambassador [of Christ Jesus] and an old man and now a prisoner for His sake also– American Standard Version (1901) yet for love’s sake I rather beseech, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus: Common English Bible I would rather appeal to you through love. I, Paul—an old man, and now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus— 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.
even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.
I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service,
Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.
I urge you the more earnestly to do this in order that I may be restored to you the sooner.
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
And when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we did not take for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.’”