| 1 | Philemon | ||
| 1 | Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker | Salutation Phm.1.1-3 | |
| 2 | and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house: | ||
| 3 | Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. | ||
| 4 | I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, | Philemon's Love and Faith Phm.1.4-7 | |
| 5 | because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints, | ||
| 6 | and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ. | ||
| 7 | For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you. | ||
| 8 | Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required, | Paul Pleads for Onesimus Phm.1.8-22 | |
| 9 | yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you - I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus - | ||
| 10 | I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment. | ||
| 11 | (Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.) | ||
| 12 | I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart. | ||
| 13 | I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel; | ||
| 14 | but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will. | ||
| 15 | Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever, | ||
| 16 | no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. | ||
| 17 | So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me. | ||
| 18 | If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account. | ||
| 19 | I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it - to say nothing of your owing me even your own self. | ||
| 20 | Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ. | ||
| 21 | Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say. | ||
| 22 | At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you. | ||
| 23 | Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you, | Final Greetings Phm.1.23-3.25 | |
| 24 | and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers. | ||
| 25 | The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. | ||
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