Philemon 1:19
17 So if you consider me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.
18 But if he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge it to my account.
I, Paul, write this with my own hand. I will repay it—not to mention that you owe me your very self.
20 Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
21 Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I, Paul, write this with my own hand. I will repay it—not to mention that you owe me your very self.
- KJV
- I 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.
- WEB
- I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).
- ASV
- I Paul write it with mine own hand, I will repay it: that I say not unto thee that thou owest to me even thine own self besides.
- DARBY
- *I* Paul have written [it] with mine own hand; *I* will repay [it]: that I say not to thee that thou owest even thine own self also to me.
- BLB
- I, Paul, wrote with my own hand. I will repay [it], that I may not say to you that you also owe to me even yourself.
- ÅB
- Jeg, Paulus, skriver med egen hånd: jeg skal betale det - for ikke å nevne at du skylder meg til og med deg selv.
- OTB
- Jeg, Paulus, skriver dette med min egen hånd—jeg vil betale det—ikke å nevne at du skylder meg selv ditt eget liv.
- B1930
- Jeg, Paulus, skriver med egen hånd: jeg skal betale det - forat jeg ikke skal si dig at du skylder mig endog dig selv.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Galatians 6:11
See what large letters I am using to write to you with my own hand!
Read in context1 Corinthians 16:21–22
This greeting is in my own hand—Paul.
Read in contextGalatians 5:2
Take notice: I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.
Read in contextJames 5:19–20
My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back,
Read in context1 Corinthians 4:15
Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
Read in context1 Corinthians 9:1–2
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you yourselves not my workmanship in the Lord?
Read in context2 Corinthians 3:2
You yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by everyone.
Read in context1 Timothy 1:2
To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Read in context