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Philemon 8-10
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Philemon 8-10
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Paul’s Plea for Onesimus
8 For this reason, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do your duty, 9 yet I would rather appeal to you on the basis of love—and I, Paul, do this as an old man, and now also as a prisoner of Christ Jesus.[a] 10 I am appealing to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment.
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- Philemon 1:9 Or as an ambassador of Christ Jesus, and now also his prisoner
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