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Philemon 1:9

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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.

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  1. Philemon 1:7

    For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

  2. Philemon 1:8

    Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,

  3. Philemon 1:10

    I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

  4. Philemon 1:11

    Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.