Therefore, brothers, I exhort you through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, [which is] your intelligent service.

Now then, we serve as ambassadors for Christ, as though God were appealing through us: we implore [you] on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

And working together [with Him], we also urge that you not receive the grace of God in vain.

Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

But I especially urge [you] to do this, in order that I may be restored to you more quickly.

Beloved, I implore you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from the lusts of the flesh which war against the soul;

Do not cast me off at the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.

even until I am old and advanced in years. O God, forsake me not; until I have declared Your [mighty] arm to all the generation that is to come;

Old age is a crown of honor, but it is found in the ways of righteousness.

I am [He]; and until you have grown old, I am [He]; I bear you, I have made, and I will relieve, I will take up and save you.

Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow worker,

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles--

Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,