Philemon 1:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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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: {G2193} {G1520}
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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Phlm 1:6-10
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6that the fellowship of thy faith may become effectual, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in you, unto Christ.
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,
Col 4:8-9
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8whom I have sent {G4314} you for this very purpose, that ye may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts;
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.
Phlm 1:12-20
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12whom I have sent back to thee {G1161} in his own person, that is, my very heart:
13whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
14but without thy mind I would do nothing; that thy goodness should not be as of necessity, but of free will.
15For perhaps he was therefore parted [from thee] for a season, that thou shouldest have him for ever;
16no 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.
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: None 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.
2 Tim 4:11
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11Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee; for he is useful to me for ministering.
2 Tim 1:15-18
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15This thou knowest, that all that are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
16The Lord grant mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus: for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain;
17but, when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me
18(the Lord grant unto him to find mercy of the Lord in that day); and in how many things he ministered at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
Phlm 1:1-2
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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:
Phil 2:22
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22But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child [serveth] a father, [so] he served with me in furtherance of the gospel.
Col 1:7
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7even as ye learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,
Col 1:21
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21And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,
Phlm 1:23
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23Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus, saluteth thee;
Phil 1:11-13
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11being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
12Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel;
13so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;
Phil 2:30
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30because for the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
2 Cor 12:17
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17Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you?
Phil 2:25
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2 Cor 8:10
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Col 1:25
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Phil 1:5
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5for your fellowship in furtherance of the gospel from the first day until now;
Phil 4:10
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Rom 1:10
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10making request, if by any means now at length I may be prospered by the will of God to come unto you.
Phil 1:30
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30having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
2 Cor 12:13
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13For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except {G3361} [it be] that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong.
2 Cor 1:15-16
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15And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;
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Titus 3:14
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Titus 3:8
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Gal 4:12
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Gal 4:9
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9but 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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23but they {G2258} only heard say, He that once persecuted us now preacheth the faith of which he once made havoc;
Rom 6:20
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20For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.
Heb 13:19
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