Filemon 1:13

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sebenarnya aku mau menahan dia di sini sebagai gantimu untuk melayani aku selama aku dipenjarakan karena Injil,

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sebenarnya aku mau menahan dia di sini sebagai gantimu untuk melayani aku selama aku dipenjarakan karena Injil,

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
maka aku sudah bermaksud hendak menahan dia sertaku, supaya ia melayani aku di dalam hal aku terbelenggu karena Injil akan gantimu;

Contextual Overview

⁸ Wherfore, though I myght be much bolde in Christe, to inioyne thee that which is conuenient: ⁹ Yet for loues sake, I rather beseche thee, beyng such a one as Paul the aged, & nowe also a prisoner of Iesus Christe. ¹⁰ I beseche thee for my sonne Onesimus, whom I haue begotten in my bondes: ¹¹ Which in tyme passed, was to thee vnprofitable, but nowe profitable to thee and to me. ¹² Whom I haue sent agayne: Thou therefore receaue hym, that is, myne owne bowels, ¹³ Whom I woulde haue retayned with me, that in thy steade he myght haue ministred vnto me in the bondes of the Gospell: ¹⁴ But without thy mynde woulde I do nothyng, that thy benefite shoulde not be as it were of necessitie, but willingly. ¹⁵ For happyly he therfore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receaue hym for euer: ¹⁶ Not nowe as a seruaunt, but aboue a seruaunt, a brother beloued, specially to me: but howe much more vnto thee, both in the fleshe, and in the Lorde? ¹⁷ If thou count me therfore a felowe, receaue hym as my selfe.

Bible Verse Review
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in thy stead: 1 Corinthians 16:17, Philippians 2:30

the bonds: Philemon 1:1, Ephesians 3:1, Ephesians 4:1

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 19:21 - ministered Matthew 20:26 - minister Acts 28:20 - this chain

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whom I would have retained with me,.... At Rome, where the apostle was a prisoner:

that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the Gospel; the apostle was in bonds, not for any crime, for any immorality he had been guilty of, but for the sake of the Gospel, for professing and preaching that; for this he was an ambassador in bonds, as he elsewhere says, Ephesians 6:20. Now he would have kept Onesimus with him, either to have waited upon him, in his bonds, and to have provided for him the necessaries of life; or to have assisted him in the ministration of the word, in the room of Philemon, who, had he been there, would have been employed in such service; so that if the apostle had retained him, he would have been acting not for himself, but in the room of his master, and doing what he should have done, had he been on the spot. This the apostle observes to prevent an objection that might have been made; that since Onesimus was become so profitable to him, why did he send him back? why did he not keep him for his own service? this he obviates and removes, by signifying he should have done it, but for the following reason.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead - “That he might render me the service which I know you would if you were here.” The Greek is: “for thee” ὑπὲρ σοῦ huper sou; that is, what he should do for Paul might be regarded as done by Philemon himself.

He might have ministered unto me - He might have rendered me assistance (διακονῇ diakonē); to wit, in such a way as one who was in bonds would need.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Philemon 1:13. That in thy stead he might have ministered unto me — As Philemon was one of Paul's converts, he became thereby his spiritual father, and had a right to his services when in need. This was a strong argument, not only to induce Philemon to forgive his servant, but to send him back to the apostle, that he might minister to him in his master's stead.