Philemon 1:16

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 23:8 : 8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your teacher, and all ye are brethren.
  • 1 Tim 6:2 : 2 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but let them serve them the rather, because they that partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. These things teach and exhort.
  • Col 3:22 : 22 Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord: [
  • Heb 3:1 : 1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, [even] Jesus;
  • 1 Pet 1:22-23 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently: 23 having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.
  • Acts 9:17 : 17 And Ananias departed, and entered into the house; and laying his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, [even] Jesus, who appeared unto thee in the way which thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mayest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 7:22 : 22 For he that was called in the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman: likewise he that was called being free, is Christ's bondservant.
  • Gal 4:28-29 : 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, so also it is now.
  • Eph 6:5-7 : 5 Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; 6 not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; 7 with good will doing service, as unto the Lord, and not unto men:
  • 1 John 5:1 : 1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

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    17If then thou countest me a partner, receive him as myself.

    18But if he hath wronged thee at all, or oweth [thee] aught, put that to mine account;

    19I 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.

    20Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my heart in Christ.

    21Having confidence in thine obedience I write unto thee, knowing that thou wilt do even beyond what I say.

    22But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I hope that through your prayers I shall be granted unto you.

    23Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus, saluteth thee;

  • Phlm 1:7-15
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    7For I had much joy and comfort in thy love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

    8Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,

    9yet for love's sake I rather beseech, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus:

    10I beseech thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,

    11who once was unprofitable to thee, but now is profitable to thee and to me:

    12whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that is, my very heart:

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    9together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things that [are done] here.

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    1Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow-worker,

    2and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the church in thy house:

    3Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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    28I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

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    7even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.

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    13so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;

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    8Wherefore I beseech you to confirm [your] love toward him.