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 - Y'all Version Bible I would rather appeal to you on the basis of love. I, Paul, as an old man and 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. |
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.
Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.
Therefore I urge y’all, siblings, by the mercies of God, to present y’all’s bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your* proper sacred service.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us. We plead on behalf of Christ: “Y’all be reconciled to God.”
Working together with ʜɪᴍ, we urge y’all not to receive the grace of God in vain.
For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of y’all ethnic groups—
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, urge y’all to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you* were called,
for which I represent in chains, so that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
I thank the one who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to deacon-work,
Older men are to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance.
I strongly urge y’all to do this, so that I may be restored to y’all sooner.
Beloved, I beg y’all as foreigners and immigrants to abstain from fleshly desires that war against the soul,
When their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Y’all be gracious to them, because we didn’t take a woman for each man in battle. Y’all didn’t give them to them, otherwise y’all would now be guilty.’”