Hebrews 13:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Hebrews 13:19 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Philemon 1:22
But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.
Romans 1:10-12
Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you. …
Romans 15:31-32
That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints; …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-25)

Here, I. The apostle recommends himself, and his fellow-sufferers, to the prayers of the Hebrew believers (Heb. 13:18): “ Pray for us; for me and Timothy” (mentioned Heb. 13:23), “and for all those of us who labour in the ministry of the gospel.” 1. This is one part of the duty which people owe to their ministers. Ministers need the prayers of the people; and the more earnestly the people pray for…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 19)

19. the rather--Greek, “I the more abundantly beseech you.” to do this--to pray for me. that I may be restored to you--(Phm 22). It is here first in the letter he mentions himself, in a way so unobtrusive, as not to prejudice his Hebrew readers against him, which would have been the result had he commenced this as his other Epistles, with authoritatively announcing his name and apostolic commissio…