Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
Philemon 1:9 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Sha'ul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Yeshua the Messiah. 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. |
Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my strength fails.
Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.
and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Messiah, as though God were entreating by us. We beg you on behalf of Messiah, be reconciled to God.
Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
For this cause I, Sha'ul, am the prisoner of Messiah Yeshua on behalf of you Gentiles,
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
And I thank him who enabled me, Messiah Yeshua our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;
that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:
I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else would you now be guilty.