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Revised Standard Version

Philemon 1:21

Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Onesimus;   Philemon;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for April 5;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
I write this letter knowing that you will do what I ask, and even more than I ask.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Trustinge in thyne obediece I wrote vnto the knowynge that thou wilt do more then I saye for.
Hebrew Names Version
Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.
New American Standard Bible
Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, since I know that you will do even more than what I say.
New Century Version
I write this letter, knowing that you will do what I ask you and even more.
Update Bible Version
Having confidence in your obedience I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.
Webster's Bible Translation
Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote to thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.
English Standard Version
Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
World English Bible
Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Having confidence of thy obedience I have written to thee, knowing that thou wilt do even more than I say.
Weymouth's New Testament
I write to you in the full confidence that you will meet my wishes, for I know you will do even more than I say.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y tristnynge of thin obedience wroot to thee, witynge that thou schalt do ouer that that Y seie.
English Revised Version
Having confidence in thine obedience I write unto thee, knowing that thou wilt do even beyond what I say.
Berean Standard Bible
Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.
Contemporary English Version
I am sure you will do all I have asked, and even more.
Amplified Bible
I write to you [perfectly] confident of your obedient compliance, since I know that you will do even more than I ask.
American Standard Version
Having confidence in thine obedience I write unto thee, knowing that thou wilt do even beyond what I say.
Bible in Basic English
Being certain that you will do my desire, I am writing to you, in the knowledge that you will do even more than I say.
Complete Jewish Bible
Trusting that you will respond positively, I write knowing that you will indeed do more than I am asking.
Darby Translation
Being confident of thine obedience, I have written to thee, knowing that thou wilt do even more than I say.
International Standard Version
Confident of your obedience, I am writing to you because I know that you will do even more than I ask.2 Corinthians 7:16;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
Because I am confident of thy hearing me, I have written to thee, and I know that more than I have asked thou wilt do.
Murdock Translation
Being confident that thou wilt hearken to me, I have written to thee: and I know that thou wilt do more than I say.
King James Version (1611)
Hauing confidence in thy obedience, I wrote vnto thee, knowing that thou wilt also doe more then I say.
New Living Translation
I am confident as I write this letter that you will do what I ask and even more!
New Life Bible
I write this letter knowing you will do what I ask and even more.
New Revised Standard
Confident of your obedience, I am writing to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Trusting in thine obedience, I wrote vnto thee, knowing yt thou wilt do eue more then I say.
George Lamsa Translation
Because I have confidence in your obedience, I wrote to you, knowing that you will also do more than I ask.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Confident of thine obedience, I have written unto thee, knowing that, even beyond what I say, thou wilt do: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
Trusting in thy obedience, I have written to thee: knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Trustyng in thine obedience, I wrote vnto thee, knowyng, that thou wilt also do more then I say.
Good News Translation
I am sure, as I write this, that you will do what I ask—in fact I know that you will do even more.
Christian Standard Bible®
Since I am confident of your obedience, I am writing to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
King James Version
Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.
Lexham English Bible
Confident of your obedience, I am writing to you because I know that you will do even beyond what I say.
Literal Translation
Trusting to your obedience, I wrote to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.
Young's Literal Translation
having been confident in thy obedience I did write to thee, having known that also above what I may say thou wilt do;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Trustinge in thine obediece, I haue wrytten vnto the, for I knowe that thou wilt do more then I saye.
Mace New Testament (1729)
I writ this upon the presumption of your compliance, being persuaded that you will even do more than I mention.
THE MESSAGE
I know you well enough to know you will. You'll probably go far beyond what I've written. And by the way, get a room ready for me. Because of your prayers, I fully expect to be your guest again.
New English Translation
Since I was confident that you would obey, I wrote to you, because I knew that you would do even more than what I am asking you to do.
New King James Version
Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
Simplified Cowboy Version
As I write, I'm fully confident that you will do this and even more.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, since I know that you will do even more than what I say.
Legacy Standard Bible
Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, since I know that you will do even more than what I say.

Contextual Overview

8 Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required, 9 yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you--I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus-- 10 I appeal to you for my child, Ones'imus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment. 11 (Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.) 12 I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart. 13 I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel; 14 but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will. 15 Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever, 16 no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. 17 So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Corinthians 2:3, 2 Corinthians 7:16, 2 Corinthians 8:22, Galatians 5:10, 2 Thessalonians 3:4

Reciprocal: Romans 15:14 - I 2 Corinthians 2:9 - whether Philippians 1:6 - confident 2 Thessalonians 3:14 - obey

Cross-References

Genesis 1:18
to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:24
And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so.
Genesis 1:25
And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."
Genesis 1:31
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
Genesis 6:20
Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you, to keep them alive.
Genesis 7:14
they and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every sort.
Genesis 8:17
Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh--birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth--that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth."
Genesis 8:19
And every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves upon the earth, went forth by families out of the ark.
Genesis 9:7
And you, be fruitful and multiply, bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply in it."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Having confidence in thy obedience,.... In his obedience of faith to Christ, and his Gospel; he having been made willing in the day of his power to serve him, as well as to be saved by him; and being constrained by his love, and the Spirit of Christ having wrought in him both to will and to do of his good pleasure:

l wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say; the knowledge the apostle had of Philemon's cheerful obedience to Christ in all the parts of duty, encouraged him to write to him, on this head; believing that he would even do more than he had desired of him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Having confidence in thy obedience - That you would comply with all my expressed desires.

I wrote unto thee - “I have written to you;” to wit, in this Epistle.

Knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say - In all the respects which he had mentioned - in receiving Onesimus, and in his kind treatment of him. He had asked a great favor of him, but he knew that he would go even beyond what he had asked.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Philemon 1:21. Having confidence in thy obedience — I know that it will please thee thus to oblige thy friend, and I know that thou wilt do more than I request, because thou feelest the affection of a son to thy spiritual father. Some think that the apostle hints to Philemon that he should manumit Onesimus.


 
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