Philemon 1:17
So if you consider me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.
BSB
ASV
If then thou countest me a partner, receive him as myself.
KJV
If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
"If therefore you have me as a partner, receive him as you would me." Philemon desired to have Paul as a partner, and believing in Christ, he truly wanted to make such progress as to become like Paul, so that he could share his chains with him. Let us consider how much praise Onesimus is given here, how much he is said to have profited: since he must be received in such a way as the Apostle, and so should desire his fellowship, as belonging to Paul.
Answer, Onesimus being now penitent, it was doubtless to encourage him, and to support him against the fears he might have in returning to a master whom he had so much abused and wronged, to keep him from sinking into despondency and dejection, and encourage him to his duty.
If there count me therefore a partner - The word rendered “partner” (κοινωνὸς koinōnos, means “a partaker, a companion.” The idea in the word is that of having something in common (κοινὸς koinos) with any one - as common principles; common attachments; a common interest in an enterprise; common hopes.
The walk8
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
Matthew 10:40He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives the One who sent Me.
leads to
Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever receives the one I send receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives the One who sent Me.”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
And He said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in My name welcomes Me, and whoever welcomes Me welcomes the One who sent Me. For whoever is the least among all of you,…
Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”
And whoever welcomes a little child like this in My name welcomes Me.
Again Jesus said to them, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, so also I am sending you.”
Through
Acts 16:15And when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.
leads to
He will convey to you a message by which you and all your household will be saved.’
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
At that hour of the night, the jailer took them and washed their wounds. And without delay, he and all his household were baptized.
