Philemon 1:20
Good News Translation
So, my brother, please do me this favor for the Lord's sake; as a brother in Christ, cheer me up!

New Revised Standard Version
Yes, brother, let me have this benefit from you in the Lord! Refresh my heart in Christ.

Contemporary English Version
My dear friend and follower of Christ our Lord, please cheer me up by doing this for me.

New American Bible
Yes, brother, may I profit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yea, brother. May I enjoy thee in the Lord! Refresh my bowels in the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Yea, brother. May I enjoy thee in the Lord! Refresh my bowels in the Lord.

let me.

2 Corinthians 2:2 For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then that can make me glad, but the same who is made sorrowful by me?

2 Corinthians 7:4-7,13 Great is my confidence for you: great is my glorying for you. I am filled with comfort: I exceedingly abound with joy in all our tribulation. . . .

Philippians 2:2 Fulfil ye my joy, that you be of one mind, having the same charity, being of one accord, agreeing in sentiment.

Philippians 4:1 Therefore my dearly beloved brethren and most desired, my joy and my crown: so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

1 Thessalonians 2:19,20 For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? . . .

1 Thessalonians 3:7-9 Therefore we were comforted, brethren, in you, in all our necessity and tribulation, by your faith. . . .

Hebrews 13:17 Obey your prelates and be subject to them. For they watch as being to render an account of your souls: that they may do this with joy and not with grief. For this is not expedient for you.

3 John 1:4 I have no greater grace than this, to hear that my children walk in truth.

refresh.

Philemon 1:7,12 For I have had great joy and consolation in thy charity, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother. . . .

Philippians 1:8 For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

Philippians 2:1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if any society of the spirit, if any bowels of commiseration:

1 John 3:17 He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his brother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him?

Context
Paul's Appeal for Onesimus
19I Paul have written it with my own hand: I will repay it: not to say to thee that thou owest me thy own self also. 20Yea, brother. May I enjoy thee in the Lord! Refresh my bowels in the Lord. 21Trusting in thy obedience, I have written to thee: knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 16:18
For they have refreshed both my spirit and yours. Know them, therefore, that are such.

Philemon 1:7
For I have had great joy and consolation in thy charity, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother.

Philemon 1:19
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