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I, Paul, write [this] with my [own] hand: I will pay it back, lest I mention to you that {you owe me even your very self besides}.
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Yes, brother, I ought to have some benefit of you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.
21
Confident of your obedience, I am writing to you [because I] know that you will do even beyond what I say.
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At the same time also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.
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Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,
Footnotes 1
[a].
*Here "[because]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("know") which is understood as causal
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