Philemon 1:21
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Having confidence in your obedience I wrote to you, knowing that you will also do more than I say.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Having confidence in your obedience I wrote to you, knowing that you will also do more than I say.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Having confidence in thine obedience I write unto thee, knowing that thou wilt do even beyond what I say.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Being certain that you will do my desire, I am writing to you, in the knowledge that you will do even more than I say.
Webster's Revision
Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote to thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.
World English Bible
Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Having confidence in thine obedience I write unto thee, knowing that thou wilt do even beyond what I say.
Clarke's Philemon 1:21 Bible Commentary
Having confidence in thy obedience - I know that it will please thee thus to oblige thy friend, and I know that thou wilt do more than I request, because thou feelest the affection of a son to thy spiritual father. Some think that the apostle hints to Philemon that he should manumit Onesimus.
Barnes's Philemon 1:21 Bible Commentary
Having confidence in thy obedience - That you would comply with all my expressed desires.
I wrote unto thee - "I have written to you;" to wit, in this Epistle.
Knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say - In all the respects which he had mentioned - in receiving Onesimus, and in his kind treatment of him. He had asked a great favor of him, but he knew that he would go even beyond what he had asked.
