Philemon 1

Treated in 7 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 1:16 no longer as a slave but as more than a slave, a dear brother. He is especially dear to me, and how much more to you, both in everyday life and in the Lord. 3
  • 1:7 Brother, your love has filled me with joy and encouragement, because through you God's holy people have been refreshed at heart. 1
  • 1:9 I would rather appeal to you on the basis of love. I, Paul, an old man and now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus, 1
  • 1:10 appeal to you for my child Onesimus, who became my son while I was in chains. 1
  • 1:11 Once he was useless to you, but now he is useful to you and to me. 1
  • 1:12 I am sending him back to you, and he is my very heart. 1
  • 1:13 I would have liked to keep him here with me, so that he could serve me in your place while I am in chains for the gospel. 1
  • 1:14 But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that any good you do would come from your own free choice and not be forced. 1
  • 1:21 I write to you sure that you will do what I ask, and I know you will do even more than I say. 1

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Where it is preached

  1. The Key Teachings of George Whitefield · Ochorus Originals

    Bethesda and Its Shadow cites PHILEMON 1:16

    …even when he would not. Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved. PHILEMON 1:16 Reading him honestly Readers of Whitefield should not look away from this chapter of his…

  2. Real Questions – Book 2 · Ochorus Originals

    Wasn’t Christianity Used to Defend Slavery? cites Philemon 1:16

    …him to receive him “no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a beloved brother” (Philemon 1:16). Put that together and you get a book that was steadily pointing towards freedom: “There…

  3. Our Daily Walk · F. B. Meyer

    June cites Phi 1:21

    …fail. AMEN. June 11 LIFE AND DEATH “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”— Phi 1:21. HOW CLOSE life and death are! In this verse there is only a comma between them, and…

  4. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    Part I. Concerning the nature of the affections and their importance in religion cites Philem. 1:7

    …3:3. Col. 1:24. 1 Thess. 3:9. He speaks of his “rejoicing with great joy,” Phil 4:10, Philem. 1:7; of his “joying and rejoicing,” Phil. 2:17, and “of his rejoicing exceedingly,” 2 Cor.…

  5. Tell Me the Story – Book 8: To the Ends of the Earth · Ochorus Originals

    The Runaway Slave cites Philemon 1:16

    “No longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a beloved brother.” — Philemon 1:16 While Paul was a prisoner, he met a young man called Onesimus. Onesimus had run away from…

  6. Our Daily Walk · F. B. Meyer

    April cites Phi 1:9-10

    …things that look very much alike, but are different in nature and direction (Heb 5:14; Phi 1:9-10; marg. R.V.). It is not an enduement of intellectual power, but of moral taste and…

  7. Our Daily Walk · F. B. Meyer

    July cites Phi 1:11-14

    …him. He could pray, and he did (Col 1:3; Col 2:1; Col 4:12). He could influence others (Phi 1:11-14). He employed his leisure in writing the epistles that have been the perennial solace of…