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Philemon 1:17 KJV
Philemon · chapter 1 · verse 17
If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.Philemon 1:17 · King James Version
Philemon 1:17 in context
15For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;
16Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
17If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
18If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;
19I 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- partnerkoinōnosa partner, associate, comrade, companion, a partner, sharer, in anything, of the altar in…G2844 →
- receiveproslambanōto take to, take in addition, to take to one s self, to take as one s companion, to take…G4355 →
- countechōto haveG2192 →
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We have here, I. The main business of the epistle, which was to plead with Philemon on behalf of Onesimus, that he would receive him and be reconciled to him. Many arguments Paul urges for this purpose, Plm 1:8-21.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-25