Therefore, brothers, I exhort you through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your intelligent service.
Philemon 1:9 - English Majority Text Version rather on account of love I appeal to you--being such a one as Paul, the elder, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ-- Higit pang mga bersyonKing 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. |
Therefore, brothers, I exhort you through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your intelligent service.
Now then, we serve as ambassadors for Christ, as though God were appealing through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.
And working together with Him, we also urge that you not receive the grace of God in vain.
For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles--
Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,
for the sake of which I serve as an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I must speak.
And I give thanks to the One who empowers me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because He considered me faithful, putting me into the ministry,
Older men are to be sober, serious, temperate, sound in the faith, in love, in endurance.
But I especially urge you to do this, in order that I may be restored to you more quickly.
Beloved, I implore you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from the lusts of the flesh which war against the soul;