Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength unto this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.
Philemon 1:9 - King James 2000 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech you, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 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. |
Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength unto this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails.
White hair is a crown of glory, if it is found in the way of righteousness.
And even to your old age I am he; and even to gray hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you receive not the grace of God in vain.
For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation by which you are called,
For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that in this I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has enabled me, that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
That the aged men be sensible, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience.
But I beseech you rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favorable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for you did not give unto them at this time, that you should be guilty.