yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—
Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints,
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
I urge you the more earnestly to do this in order that I may be restored to you the sooner.
Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.
Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.
So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.
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