Philemon 1:21
Good News Translation
I am sure, as I write this, that you will do what I ask--in fact I know that you will do even more.

New Revised Standard Version
Confident of your obedience, I am writing to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.

Contemporary English Version
I am sure you will do all I have asked, and even more.

New American Bible
With trust in your compliance I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Trusting in thy obedience, I have written to thee: knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Trusting in thy obedience, I have written to thee: knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.

2 Corinthians 2:3 And I wrote this same to you: that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

2 Corinthians 7:16 I rejoice that in all things I have confidence in you.

2 Corinthians 8:22 And we have sent with them our brother also, whom we have often proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent: with much confidence in you,

Galatians 5:10 I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will not be of another mind: but he that troubleth you shall bear the judgment, whosoever he be.

2 Thessalonians 3:4 And we have confidence concerning you in the Lord that the things which we command, you both do and will do.

Context
Paul's Appeal for Onesimus
20Yea, brother. May I enjoy thee in the Lord! Refresh my bowels in the Lord. 21Trusting in thy obedience, I have written to thee: knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say. 22But withal prepare me also a lodging. For I hope that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.…
Cross References
Romans 2:19
Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote this same to you: that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

Philemon 1:20
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