Philemon 1:11
who once was unprofitable to thee, but now is profitable to thee and to me:
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Referenced Verses
- 2 Tim 4:11 : 11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee; for he is useful to me for ministering.
- 1 Pet 2:10 : 10 who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
- Luke 15:32 : 32 But it was meet to make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive [again] ; and [was] lost, and is found.
- Luke 17:10 : 10 Even so ye also, when ye shall have done all the things that are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which it was our duty to do.
- Rom 3:12 : 12 They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:
- Job 30:1-2 : 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. 2 Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
- Matt 25:30 : 30 And cast ye out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
- Luke 15:24 : 24 for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
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8 Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,
9 yet for love's sake I rather beseech, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus:
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12 whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that is, my very heart:
13 whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
14 but without thy mind I would do nothing; that thy goodness should not be as of necessity, but of free will.
15 For perhaps he was therefore parted [from thee] for a season, that thou shouldest have him for ever;
16 no longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much rather to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
17 If then thou countest me a partner, receive him as myself.
18 But if he hath wronged thee at all, or oweth [thee] aught, put that to mine account;
19 I Paul write it with mine own hand, I will repay it: that I say not unto thee that thou owest to me even thine own self besides.
20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my heart in Christ.
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11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee; for he is useful to me for ministering.
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1 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow-worker,
2 and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the church in thy house:
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22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child [serveth] a father, [so] he served with me in furtherance of the gospel.
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23 Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus, saluteth thee;
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11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
12 Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel;
13 so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;
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30 because for the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
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17 Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you?
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25 But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker and fellow-soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need;
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25 whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God,
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9 but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?
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23 but they only heard say, He that once persecuted us now preacheth the faith of which he once made havoc;
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20 For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.
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19 And I exhort [you] the more exceedingly to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
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12 I thank him that enabled me, [even] Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he counted me faithful, appointing me to [his] service;