I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.
Parallel translations
- KJV But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
- BSB And I especially urge you to pray that I may be restored to you soon.
- ESV I urge you the more earnestly to do this in order that I may be restored to you the sooner.
- NKJV But I especially urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
- NASB And I urge you all the more to do this, so that I may be restored to you more quickly.
- NLT And especially pray that I will be able to come back to you soon.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Phlm 1:22Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.
- Rom 15:31–32that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;
- Rom 1:10–12requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
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