Category: Beseeching

Anyone who has read the apostle Paul’s letters know him to be a man of great passion. He loved his brethren deeply, and dearly wished them to be strong and fruitful children of God. This is seen in his admonitions and in his entreaties. One of the phrases we see time and time again in his epistles is “I beseech you…”, or some variant. “I am pleading with you”, “I appeal to you”, “I urge you.”

The word beseech is used by Paul in the sense of begging or entreating. There is a difference in emphasis with asking as opposed to begging. Begging indicates a desperation for that proper response. Paul understood how important all of this was and is, and was figuratively (and maybe even literally) willing to get down on his knees and beg for his brethren to do what was right!

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