<p class="bodytext">I appeal to Euodia and to Syntyche to agree in the Lord.

I encourage you, then, be imitators of me.

Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">First of all, then, I urge that requests,<n id="1" /> prayers, intercessions, and thanks be offered on behalf of all people,<n id="2" />

I am appealing<n id="1" /> to you concerning my child, whose spiritual father I have become<n id="2" /> during my imprisonment,<n id="3" /> that is, Onesimus,

I especially ask you to pray<n id="1" /> that I may be restored to you very soon.p>

But so that I may not delay<n id="1" /> you any further, I beg<n id="2" /> you to hear us briefly<n id="3" /> with your customary graciousness.<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord,<n id="1" /> urge you to live<n id="2" /> worthily of the calling with which you have been called,<n id="3" />

I would rather appeal<n id="1" /> to you on the basis of love &#8211; I, Paul, an old man<n id="2" /> and even now a prisoner for the sake of Christ Jesus<n id="3" /> &#8211;

<p class="bodytext">Now I urge you, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> bear with my message of exhortation, for in fact I have written to you briefly.

<p class="bodytext">Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,

Therefore I urge you to take some food, for this is important<n id="1" /> for your survival.<n id="2" /> For not one of you will lose a hair from his head.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Now I urge you, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!

<p class="bodytext">Now, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> you know about the household of Stephanus, that as the first converts<n id="2" /> of Achaia, they devoted themselves to ministry for the saints. I urge you

<t /><p class="bodytext">So as your fellow elder and a witness of Christ&#8217;s sufferings and as one who shares in the glory that will be revealed, I urge the elders among you:

<t /><p class="bodytext">Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice &#8211; alive, holy, and pleasing to God<n id="2" /> &#8211; which is your reasonable service.

<p class="bodytext">Now I urge you, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join fervently with me in prayer to God on my behalf.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now I, Paul, appeal to you<n id="1" /> personally<n id="2" /> by the meekness and gentleness<n id="3" /> of Christ (I who am meek<n id="4" /> when present among<n id="5" /> you, but am full of courage<n id="6" /> toward you when away!) &#8211;

<t /><p class="bodytext">I urge you, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree together,<n id="2" /> to end your divisions,<n id="3" /> and to be united by the same mind and purpose.<n id="4" />