11Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
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Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. …
It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
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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 s…
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