Philemon Bible Study - Questions on verses 12-16

Bible Study on the Book of Philemon

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The letter of “Philemon” written by Paul is a simple yet interesting book of the Bible.  Often, overlooked perhaps, due to its size, there are nuggets of gold in this book.  Through this study, we will examine the book more closely and glean some of those precious gold treasures.  Presented first will be the text we are studying then the questions and notes will follow.

 

Study of Verses 8 – 16

In an effort not to make any one Bible Study posting too long I will limit the amount of questions addressed in each posting. Therefore a section of study i.e. verses 8-16 may be spread out over more than one week.

New King James Text of Book of Philemon:

Philemon

⁸Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you what is fitting, ⁹yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ— ¹⁰I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten while in my chains, ¹¹who once was unprofitable to you, but now is profitable to you and to me. ¹²I am sending him back. You therefore receive him, that is, my own heart, ¹³whom I wished to keep with me, that on your behalf he might minister to me in my chains for the gospel. ¹⁴But without your consent I wanted to do nothing, that your good deed might not be by compulsion, as it were, but voluntary. ¹⁵For perhaps he departed for a while for this purpose, that you might receive him forever, ¹⁶no longer as a slave but more than a slave—a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

 

Questions on verses 12-16:

Q-1 from v-12,13

What was Paul going to do with Onesimus?

 

Q-2 from v-12,13

What did Paul want to do with Onesimus?

 

Q-3 from v-12,13

How does Paul say he feels about Onesimus?

 

Q-4 from v-12,13

What did Paul ask Philemon to do in regards to Onesimus once he arrived?

 

Q-5 from v-14

Paul states he would not keep Onesimus with him because he did not have Philemon’s ___________________ to do so.

 

Q-6 from v-14

Paul wanted Onesimus’ ability to be with him to be determined how, if it was to be?

 

Q-7 from 15,16

How did Paul want Philemon to feel and receive Onesimus?

 

Q-8 from 15,16

Paul hoped that Philemon, would view Onesimus upon his return, in two different ways.  What were those two different manners in which Paul now wanted Onesimus recognized?