19I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
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Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.
Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; …
Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? …
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.
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 s…
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