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Philemon 1:22

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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

Christian Standard Bible®
Meanwhile, also prepare a guest room for me, since I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.
King James Version (1611)
But withall prepare mee also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be giuen vnto you.
King James Version
But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.
English Standard Version
At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping that through your prayers I will be graciously given to you.
New American Standard Bible
At the same time also prepare me a guest room, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given to you.
New Century Version
One more thing—prepare a room for me in which to stay, because I hope God will answer your prayers and I will be able to come to you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
At the same time also prepare me a lodging, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given to you.
Legacy Standard Bible
And at the same time also prepare me a lodging, for I hope that through your prayers I will be graciously given to you.
Berean Standard Bible
In the meantime, prepare a guest room for me, because I hope that through your prayers, I will be restored to you.
Contemporary English Version
Please get a room ready for me. I hope your prayers will be answered, and I can visit you.
Complete Jewish Bible
One more thing: please get a room ready for me. For I hope that through the prayers of you all God will give me a chance to visit you.
Darby Translation
But withal prepare me also a lodging; for I hope that I shall be granted to you through your prayers.
Easy-to-Read Version
Also, please prepare a room for me. I hope that God will answer your prayers and that I will be able to come and see you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Moreouer also prepare mee lodging: for I trust through your prayers I shall be freely giuen vnto you.
George Lamsa Translation
In addition to all this, prepare me a lodging; for I hope that through your prayers I shall be spared to come to you.
Good News Translation
At the same time, get a room ready for me, because I hope that God will answer the prayers of all of you and give me back to you.
Lexham English Bible
At the same time also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.
Literal Translation
But at once prepare lodging for me; for I hope that through your prayers I shall be given to you.
Amplified Bible
At the same time also prepare a guest room for me [in expectation of a visit], for I hope that through your prayers I will be [granted the gracious privilege of] coming to you [at Colossae].
American Standard Version
But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I hope that through your prayers I shall be granted unto you.
Bible in Basic English
And make a room ready for me; for I am hoping that through your prayers I will be given to you.
Hebrew Names Version
Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.
International Standard Version
Meanwhile, prepare a guest room for me, too, for I am hoping through your prayers to be returned to you.2 Corinthians 1:11; Philippians 1:25; 2:24;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
But at once also prepare me a house of lodging, for I hope through your prayers I shall be given to you.
Murdock Translation
And herewith, prepare also a house for me to lodge in; for I hope that, by your prayers, I shall be given to you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Moreouer, prepare me also a lodgyng: for I trust that through your prayers, I shalbe geuen vnto you.
English Revised Version
But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I hope that through your prayers I shall be granted unto you.
World English Bible
Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Withal prepare me also a lodging; for I trust I shall be given to you through your prayers.
Weymouth's New Testament
And at the same time provide accommodation for me; for I hope that through your prayers I shall be permitted to come to you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also make thou redi to me an hous to dwelle in; for Y hope that bi youre preyeris Y schal be youun to you.
Update Bible Version
But as well, also prepare a lodging for me: for I hope that through your prayers I shall be granted to you.
Webster's Bible Translation
But at the same time prepare me also a lodging; for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given to you.
New English Translation
At the same time also, prepare a place for me to stay, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given back to you.
New King James Version
But, meanwhile, also prepare a guest room for me, for I trust that through your prayers I shall be granted to you.
New Living Translation
One more thing—please prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping that God will answer your prayers and let me return to you soon.
New Life Bible
Please have a room ready for me. I trust God will answer your prayers and let me come to you soon.
New Revised Standard
One thing more—prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be restored to you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
At the same time, moreover, be also getting ready for me, a lodging; for I am hoping that, through your prayers, I shall be granted as a favour unto you.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But withal prepare me also a lodging. For I hope that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.
Revised Standard Version
At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Moreover prepare me lodgynge: for I trust thorow ye helpe of youre prayers I shalbe geven vnto you.
Young's Literal Translation
and at the same time also prepare for me a lodging, for I hope that through your prayers I shall be granted to you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Morouer prepare me lodginge, for I hope that thorow youre prayers I shalbe geuen vnto you.
Mace New Testament (1729)
pray at the same time prepare me a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be restored to you.
Simplified Cowboy Version
If I may be so bold as to ask for one more thing—make a room for me when I come visit. I'm hoping that your prayer for my visit will be answered very soon. I can't wait to see you, cowboy.

Contextual Overview

8In line with all this I have a favor to ask of you. As Christ's ambassador and now a prisoner for him, I wouldn't hesitate to command this if I thought it necessary, but I'd rather make it a personal request. 10While here in jail, I've fathered a child, so to speak. And here he is, hand-carrying this letter—Onesimus! He was useless to you before; now he's useful to both of us. I'm sending him back to you, but it feels like I'm cutting off my right arm in doing so. I wanted in the worst way to keep him here as your stand-in to help out while I'm in jail for the Message. But I didn't want to do anything behind your back, make you do a good deed that you hadn't willingly agreed to. 15Maybe it's all for the best that you lost him for a while. You're getting him back now for good—and no mere slave this time, but a true Christian brother! That's what he was to me—he'll be even more than that to you. 17So if you still consider me a comrade-in-arms, welcome him back as you would me. If he damaged anything or owes you anything, chalk it up to my account. This is my personal signature—Paul—and I stand behind it. (I don't need to remind you, do I, that you owe your very life to me?) Do me this big favor, friend. You'll be doing it for Christ, but it will also do my heart good. 21I 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. 23Epaphras, my cellmate in the cause of Christ, says hello. Also my coworkers Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke. All the best to you from the Master, Jesus Christ!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

prepare: Acts 28:23

for I trust: Romans 15:24, Philippians 1:25, Philippians 1:26, Philippians 2:24, Hebrews 13:23, 2 John 1:12, 3 John 1:14

through: Romans 15:30-32, 2 Corinthians 1:11, Philippians 1:19, James 5:16

Reciprocal: Romans 1:10 - request Ephesians 6:19 - for Colossians 4:3 - praying 1 Thessalonians 3:10 - praying 1 Thessalonians 5:25 - General 1 Timothy 3:14 - hoping Hebrews 13:19 - that I

Cross-References

Genesis 1:14
God spoke: "Lights! Come out! Shine in Heaven's sky! Separate Day from Night. Mark seasons and days and years, Lights in Heaven's sky to give light to Earth." And there it was.
Genesis 9:1
God blessed Noah and his sons: He said, "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill the Earth! Every living creature—birds, animals, fish—will fall under your spell and be afraid of you. You're responsible for them. All living creatures are yours for food; just as I gave you the plants, now I give you everything else. Except for meat with its lifeblood still in it—don't eat that.
Genesis 30:27
Laban said, "If you please, I have learned through divine inquiry that God has blessed me because of you." He went on, "So name your wages. I'll pay you."
Genesis 35:11
God continued, I am The Strong God. Have children! Flourish! A nation—a whole company of nations!— will come from you. Kings will come from your loins; the land I gave Abraham and Isaac I now give to you, and pass it on to your descendants.
Job 40:15
"Look at the land beast, Behemoth. I created him as well as you. Grazing on grass, docile as a cow— Just look at the strength of his back, the powerful muscles of his belly. His tail sways like a cedar in the wind; his huge legs are like beech trees. His skeleton is made of steel, every bone in his body hard as steel. Most magnificent of all my creatures, but I still lead him around like a lamb! The grass-covered hills serve him meals, while field mice frolic in his shadow. He takes afternoon naps under shade trees, cools himself in the reedy swamps, Lazily cool in the leafy shadows as the breeze moves through the willows. And when the river rages he doesn't budge, stolid and unperturbed even when the Jordan goes wild. But you'd never want him for a pet— you'd never be able to housebreak him!"
Job 42:12
God blessed Job's later life even more than his earlier life. He ended up with fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand teams of oxen, and one thousand donkeys. He also had seven sons and three daughters. He named the first daughter Dove, the second, Cinnamon, and the third, Darkeyes. There was not a woman in that country as beautiful as Job's daughters. Their father treated them as equals with their brothers, providing the same inheritance.
Psalms 128:3
Your wife will bear children as a vine bears grapes, your household lush as a vineyard, The children around your table as fresh and promising as young olive shoots. Stand in awe of God's Yes. Oh, how he blesses the one who fears God !
Proverbs 10:22
God 's blessing makes life rich; nothing we do can improve on God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But withal prepare me also a lodging,.... Not that the apostle expected or desired any grand apartment to be fitted up for him; a room with such furniture as the Shunamite provided for the man of God was sufficient for him, and what he would have been entirely contented with; but his view in this was, to let Philemon know that he hoped to be released from his bonds, and that he might expect to see him; and this he hinted to him, in order to stir him up to receive his servant sooner, and the more readily; who otherwise might have been indifferent to it, and negligent of it, thinking he should never see the apostle's face any more.

For I trust, that through your prayers I shall be given you; to minister in the Gospel again among them: the apostle was a man of prayer himself, and he had a very great regard to the prayers of others, and often desired an interest in them; that he might perform his ministerial work as it should be; that he might have success in it; and that he might be delivered from the unbelieving Jews, and from wicked and unreasonable men; and he had some secret hope and trust in his own mind, that through the prayers of the saints he should be delivered from his bonds, and go up and down preaching the Gospel as heretofore: he doubtless was acquainted with the case of Peter, for whom prayer was made incessantly by the church, when in prison, and he had deliverance; however, he knew that the prayers of the saints availed much with God; but whether this hope and expectation of his were answered, is a matter of doubt and question: some think he was released, and went into several parts, and preached the Gospel, and then was taken up again, and committed to prison, and suffered under Nero, some years after; and others think not.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But withal - Or, at the same time - Ἅμα Hama. While you are granting this favor, do me also another by preparing a lodging for me.

Prepare me also a lodging - Philemon had been accustomed to show kindness to the saints Philemon 1:5, and not improbably Paul had before shared his hospitality. The word rendered “lodging” (ξενία xenia), means, properly, guest-right, hospitality, entertainment; and then, a place for a guest; compare Acts 28:23.

For I trust - Paul had some hope of being released - an event which probably occurred; see the notes at Philippians 1:25; Philippians 2:23-24; compare the introduction to 2 Timothy.

Through your prayers - Notes, 2 Corinthians 1:11. He expected release in answer to the petitions of those who loved him, and the cause in which he was engaged; compare the notes at Acts 12:5.

I shall be given unto you - I shall be permitted to return to you, as a favor - χαρισθήσομαι charisthēsomai. Paul had no doubt thus Philemon would so regard it, and he had no apprehension that his abiding with him would be considered as a burden.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Philemon 1:22. But withal prepare me also a lodging — Does not the apostle mention this as conferring an obligation on Philemon? I will begin to repay thee by taking up my abode at thy house, as soon as I shall be enlarged from prison. But some think he wished Philemon to hire him a house, that he might have a lodging of his own when he returned to Colosse.

For I trust that through your prayers — It is very likely that this epistle was written a short time before the liberation of the apostle from his first imprisonment at Rome. See Acts 28:30, and Philippians 2:24; and that he had that liberation now in full prospect.


 
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