Philemon 1:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

Philemon 1:10 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

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Colossians 4:9
With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.
1 Corinthians 4:15
For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
1 Timothy 1:2
Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
Galatians 4:19
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
2 Samuel 19:37-38
Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 8-25)

We have here, I. The main business of the epistle, which was to plead with Phlm. on behalf of Onesimus, that he would receive him and be reconciled to him. Many arguments Paul urges for this purpose, Phlm. 1:8-21. The 1 st Argument is taken from what was before noted, and is carried in the illative wherefore: “Seeing so much good is reported of thee and found in thee, especially thy love to all sa…

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

(vv. 10)

10. I beseech thee--emphatically repeated from Phm 9. In the Greek, the name “Onesimus” is skilfully put last, he puts first a favorable description of him before he mentions the name that had fallen into so bad repute with Philemon. “I beseech thee for my son, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus.” Scripture does not sanction slavery, but at the same time does not begin a political crusade…