Philemon 1:19 BSB — MannaFest

Philemon 1:19

I, Paul, write this with my own hand. I will repay it—not to mention that you owe me your very self.

BSB

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ASV

I Paul write it with mine own hand, I will repay it: that I say not unto thee that thou owest to me even thine own self besides.

KJV

I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Philemon (420)

I, Paul, have written this with my own hand. I will repay it, not to mention that you owe me your very self." What he says is this: "Whatever Onesimus may have wronged you, I will repay. I, Paul, write this with my own hand. I will not remind you that you owe me your very self. But I say this as speaking to a stranger. Moreover, if I should regain my right due to the message of Christ, which I have preached to you, and you have become a Christian, you owe yourself to me.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

I will repay it - If thou requirest it. Not to say, that then owest me thyself - It cannot be expressed, how great our obligation is to those who have gained our souls to Christ.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

I Paul have written it with mine own hand - It has been inferred from this, that Paul wrote this entire Epistle with his own hand, though this was contrary to his usual practice; compare the Rom 16:22 note; 1Co 16:21 note; Gal 6:11 note. He undoubtedly meant to refer to this as a mark of special favor toward Philemon, and as furnishing security that he would certainly be bound for what he had promised. I will repay it - I will be security for it.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

For to my instrumentality thou owest thy salvation. So the debt which "he oweth thee" being transferred upon me (I making myself responsible for it) is cancelled.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἐγὼ	Egō	I myself	G1473 →
Παῦλος	Paulos	Paul	G3972 →
ἔγραψα	egrapsa	did write	G1125 →
τῇ	tēa	<the>	G3588 →
ἐμῇ	emēa	with my own	G1473 →
χειρί,	cheiri	hand,	G5495 →
ἐγὼ	egō	I myself	G1473 →
ἀποτίσω·	apotisō	will repay [it];	G661 →
ἵνα	ina	that	G2443 →
μὴ	mē	not	G3361 →
λέγω	legō	I may say	G3004 →
σοι	soi	to you	G4771 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
καὶ	kai	even	G2532 →
σεαυτόν	seauton	yourself	G4771 →
μοι	moi	to me	G3165 →
προσοφείλεις.	prosopheileis	you owe also.	G4359 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Galatians 5:2
Take notice: I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.
leads to
- Galatians 5:6
  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
- Acts 15:1
  Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
- Romans 9:31–32
  but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
- Galatians 2:3–5
  Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.
Through
1 Corinthians 4:15
Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
leads to
- Galatians 4:19
  My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
- 1 Corinthians 3:10
  By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.
- 1 Corinthians 9:23
  I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.
Through
Galatians 6:11
See what large letters I am using to write to you with my own hand!
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 16:21–23
  This greeting is in my own hand—Paul.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Philemon

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Philemon