Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. |
yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you – being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ - |
Yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you – since I am such a person as Paul, the aged (an ambassador), and now also prisoner of Christ Jesus - |
yet I appeal to you on the basis of love. I then, as Paul – an old man and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus - |
Yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you just for what I am – Paul, an ambassador [of Christ Jesus] and an old man and now a prisoner for His sake also - |
because of [the Christian principle of] love I am rather [saying], I beg of you, please; being such a one as Paul an ambassador but now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus. |
No, I am appealing in love, a simple personal appeal from Paul the old man, in prison for Christ Jesus’ sake. |
yet I prefer to appeal to you for love’s sake, although I am such as I am, Paul, an envoy of Christ Jesus but now a prisoner for Him too; |
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- My Son, My Son; Twisted Scriptures - Neil Girrard - ( in Adobe/pdf format ) The “spiritual fathering” teachers, from Paul and Peter calling Timothy, Titus, Onesimus and Mark their “sons,” have concocted a teaching that says that all men must have a “spiritual father” and any one who does not have one is an orphan who is destitute of any real place in the order and family of God. Is this the truth?