I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ. As God is exhorting through us, we beseech you on Christ's behalf, Be reconciled to God.

We then, as workers together with Him, also beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

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

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and sojourners, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,

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

And now when I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not leave me, until I have declared Your strength to this generation, and Your power to everyone who is to come.

The gray head is a crown of glory, if it is found in the way of righteousness.

even to your old age, I am He; and to the gray hairs I will bear you. I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

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

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles;

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,