Philemon 4-5

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Thanksgiving and Prayer

⁴I always thank my God^(A) as I remember you in my prayers,^(B) ⁵because I hear about your love for all his holy people^(C) and your faith in the Lord Jesus.^(D)

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John 17:15-19

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¹⁵My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.^(A) ¹⁶They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.^(B) ¹⁷Sanctify them by^[a] the truth; your word is truth.^(C) ¹⁸As you sent me into the world,^(D) I have sent them into the world.^(E) ¹⁹For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.^(F)

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Footnotes

John 17:17 Or them to live in accordance with

Romans 15:15-16

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¹⁵Yet I have written you quite boldly on some points to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me^(A) ¹⁶to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles.^(B) He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God,^(C) so that the Gentiles might become an offering^(D) acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.