I exhort you therefore, brethren, by the tender mercies of God, to present your bodies unto God, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable, which is your reasonable service.
Philemon 1:9 - Wesley's New Testament 1755 Yet out of love I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also the 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. |
I exhort you therefore, brethren, by the tender mercies of God, to present your bodies unto God, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable, which is your reasonable service.
Therefore we are embassadors for Christ, as though God were intreating by us: we beseech you, in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
We then, as fellow-labourers, do also exhort you, not to receive the grace of God in vain.
For this cause I Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, (Seeing ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God,
I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you, to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye are called,
For which I am an ambassador in bonds, that I may speak boldly therein, as I ought to speak.
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, in that he accounted me faithful,
And I beseech you to do this the more earnestly, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly desires,