So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.

So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.

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 old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus— 10 I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus,[b] whose father I became in my imprisonment.

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 old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus— 10 I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus,[b] whose father I became in my imprisonment.

But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.

But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.

And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers

And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, 7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.