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1:1 Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother:
To Philemon our dearly-loved fellow labourer--
1:2 and to our sister Apphia and our comrade Archippus--as well
as to the /1 Church in your house.
1:3 /2 May grace be granted to you all, and peace, from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:4 I give continual thanks to my God while making mention of
you, my brother, in my prayers,
1:5 because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have
towards the Lord Jesus and which you manifest towards all God's
people;
1:6 praying as I do, that their participation in your faith may
result in others fully recognizing all the right affection that
is in us toward Christ.
1:7 For I have /3 found great /4 joy and comfort in your love,
because the /5 hearts of God's people have been, and are,
refreshed through you, my brother.
1:8 Therefore, /6 though I might with Christ's authority speak
very freely and order you to do what is fitting,
1:9 it is for love's sake that--instead of that--although I am
none other than Paul the aged, and am now also a prisoner for
Christ Jesus,
1:10 I entreat you on behalf of my own child whose father I have
become while in my chains--I mean Onesimus.
1:11 Formerly he was useless to you, but now--true to his
name--he is of great use to you and to me.
1:12 I /7 am sending him back to you, though in so doing I send
part of myself.
1:13 It was my wish to keep him at my side for him to attend to
my wants, as your representative, during my imprisonment for
the Good News.
1:14 Only I wished to do nothing without your consent, so that
his kind action of yours might not be done under pressure, but
might be a voluntary one.
1:15 For perhaps it was /1 for this reason he was parted from
you for a time, that you might receive him back wholly and for
ever yours;
1:16 no longer as a slave, but as something better than a
slave--a brother peculiarly dear to me, and even dearer to you,
both as a servant and as a fellow Christian.
1:17 If therefore you regard me as a comrade, receive him as if
he were I myself.
1:18 And if he was ever dishonest or is in your debt, /2 debit
me with the amount.
1:19 I Paul write this with my own hand--I will pay you in full.
(I say nothing of the fact that you owe me even your own self.)
1:20 Yes, brother, do me this favour for the Lord's sake.
Refresh my heart in Christ.
1:21 I write to you in the full confidence that you will meet my
wishes, for I know you will do even more than I say.
1:22 And at the same time provide accommodation for me; for I
hope that through your prayers I shall be permitted to come to
you.
1:23 Greetings to you, my brother, from Epaphras my fellow
prisoner for the sake of Christ Jesus;
1:24 and from Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow
workers.
1:25 May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with the spirit
of /3 every one of you. /4