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Philemon 1:20
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Yes, brother, may I benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.
Yea, brother, let mee haue ioy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowles in the Lord.
Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.
Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
Yes, brother, let me benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.
So, my brother, I ask that you do this for me in the Lord: Refresh my heart in Christ.
Yes, brother, let me benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.
Yes, brother, let me benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ!
Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
My dear friend and follower of Christ our Lord, please cheer me up by doing this for me.
Yes, brother, please do me this favor in the Lord; refresh my heart in the Messiah.
Yea, brother, *I* would have profit of *thee* in [the] Lord: refresh my bowels in Christ.
So, my brother, as a follower of the Lord please do this favor for me. It would be such a great encouragement to me as your brother in Christ.
Yea, brother, let mee obteine this pleasure of thee in the Lorde: comfort my bowels in the Lorde.
Indeed, my brother, let me have comfort through you in our LORD: refresh my heart in Christ.
Yes, brother, I ought to have some benefit of you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.
Yes, brother, that I may have your help in the Lord, refresh my heart in the Lord.
Yes, brother, let me have some benefit and joy from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.
Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my heart in Christ.
So brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: give new life to my heart in Christ.
Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.
Yes, brother, I desire this favor from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ![xr]
Yes, my brother, I will be refreshed by thee in our Lord; refresh my bowels in the Meshiha.
Yes, my brother, let me be refreshed by thee in our Lord: refresh thou my bowels in the Messiah.
Yea brother, let me enioy this pleasure of thee in the Lorde: Comfort my bowels in the Lorde.
Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my heart in Christ.
Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.
Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in Christ.
Yes, brother, do me this favour for the Lord's sake. Refresh my heart in Christ.
So, brothir, Y schal vse thee in the Lord; fille thou myn entrails in Crist.
Yes, brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: refresh my heart in Christ.
Yes, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.
Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in the Lord.
Yes, my brother, please do me this favor for the Lord's sake. Give me this encouragement in Christ.
Yes, Christian brother, I want you to be of use to me as a Christian. Give my heart new joy in Christ.
Yes, brother, let me have this benefit from you in the Lord! Refresh my heart in Christ.
Yea! brother, I, would, from thee, have help, in the Lord: give rest unto my tender affections in Christ.
Yea, brother. May I enjoy thee in the Lord! Refresh my bowels in the Lord.
Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
Even so brother let me enioye the in the Lorde. Comforte my bowels in the Lorde.
Yes, brother, may I have profit of thee in the Lord; refresh my bowels in the Lord;
Euen so brother, let me enioye the in the LORDE: refresh thou my hert in the LORDE.
for the Lord's sake, brother, let me have this satisfaction: refresh my heart for his sake.
This is the favor that I ask, brother. Do it for the Lord's sake. Don't let my heart be heavy in this matter.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
let me: 2 Corinthians 2:2, 2 Corinthians 7:4-7, 2 Corinthians 7:13, Philippians 2:2, Philippians 4:1, 1 Thessalonians 2:19, 1 Thessalonians 2:20, 1 Thessalonians 3:7-9, Hebrews 13:17, 3 John 1:4
refresh: Philemon 1:7, Philemon 1:12, Philippians 1:8, Philippians 2:1, 1 John 3:17
Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 29:17 - joy thy people Proverbs 17:21 - hath Proverbs 23:24 - shall have Proverbs 27:11 - be wise Romans 15:32 - and may 2 Timothy 1:16 - refreshed
Cross-References
Then God commanded, "Let lights appear in the sky to separate day from night and to show the time when days, years, and religious festivals begin;
He blessed them all and told the creatures that live in the water to reproduce and to fill the sea, and he told the birds to increase in number.
Then God commanded, "Let the earth produce all kinds of animal life: domestic and wild, large and small"—and it was done.
So God made them all, and he was pleased with what he saw.
but for all the wild animals and for all the birds I have provided grass and leafy plants for food"—and it was done.
So he took some soil from the ground and formed all the animals and all the birds. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and that is how they all got their names.
Take all the birds and animals out with you, so that they may reproduce and spread over all the earth."
He spoke of trees and plants, from the Lebanon cedars to the hyssop that grows on walls; he talked about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
all animals, tame and wild, reptiles and birds.
You work for something with all your wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and then you have to leave it all to someone who hasn't had to work for it. It is useless, and it isn't right!
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord,.... Through the apostle was his spiritual father, having been the instrument of his conversion, yet he calls him his brother, as being a partaker of the same grace, and a minister of the same Gospel; and intimates to him, that should he grant his request, and receive his servant again, it would give him great joy and pleasure, and that not of a carnal, but of a spiritual kind, even joy in the Lord; he should rejoice in the presence of the Lord, and before him, concerning him; he should rejoice in his faith in the Lord, and love for him, and obedience to him; all which would be discovered in such a conduct: the Syriac version renders it, as an assurance to himself,
I shall be refreshed by thee in our Lord; not doubting but that he would gratify him in the thing he asked of him, which would be a refreshment to him; the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "may I enjoy thee in the Lord": meaning not his company and presence, either in this world, or in the world to come; but that he might enjoy or receive the favour from him he had petitioned him for, for the Lord's sake; the Arabic version renders it, as a reason why he should do it, "I have been profitable to thee in the Lord"; confirming what he had said before, that he owed himself to him; he having been useful to him in bringing him to the knowledge of Christ, and faith in him; and the Ethiopic version refers it to a promise, "I will repay in our Lord"; in spiritual things in our Lord, if not in things temporal:
refresh my bowels in the Lord; or "in Christ"; as the Alexandrian copy, the Syriac and Ethiopic versions, read; and by his "bowels", he either means Onesimus, as in Philemon 1:12 who, in a spiritual sense, came forth out of his bowels; or else himself, his soul, his spirit, his inward parts; and so the Ethiopic version renders it, "refresh my soul"; and the sense is, that he desired in the Lord, and for his sake, that he would receive Onesimus again, which would give him an inward pleasure, and refresh his spirit; and indeed he intimates, that nothing could be more cheering and reviving to him.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord - “By showing me this favor in receiving my friend and brother as I request.” The phrase “in the Lord,” here seems to mean that, if this request was granted, he would recognize the hand of the Lord in it, and would receive it as a favor from him.
Refresh my bowels in the Lord - The “bowels,” in the Scriptures, are uniformly spoken of as the seat of the affections - meaning commonly the upper viscera, embracing the heart and the lungs; compare the notes at Isaiah 16:11. The reason is, that in any deep emotion this part of our frame is peculiarly affected, or we feel it there. Compare Robinson’s Lex. on the word σπλάγχνον splangchnon See this illustrated at length in Sir Charles Bell’s” Anatomy of Expression,” p. 85, following Ed. London, 1844. The idea here is, that Paul had such a tender affection for Onesimus as to give him great concern and uneasiness. The word rendered “refresh” - ἀνάπαυσόν anapauson - means “to give rest to, to give repose, to free from sorrow or care;” and the sense is, that by receiving Onesimus, Philemon would cause the deep and anxious feelings of Paul to cease, and he would be calm and happy; compare the notes at Philemon 1:7.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Philemon 1:20. Yea, brother — It is even so, that thou art thus indebted to me. Let me have joy of thee, in forgiving Onesimus, and receiving him into thy favour. In the words εγε σου οναιμην, which we should translate, let me have PROFIT of thee, there is an evident paronomasia, or play on the name of Onesimus. See on Philemon 1:2; Philemon 1:11.
Refresh my bowels — Gratify the earnest longing of my soul in this. I ask neither thy money nor goods; I ask what will enrich, not impoverish, thee to give.
