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1:1  Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved brother and fellow worker,
1:2  and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house:
1:3  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:4  I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,
1:5  because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints;
1:6  and I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective through the knowledge of every good thing which is in you for the sake of Christ.
1:7  For I have had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
1:8  Therefore, though I have enough confidence in Christ to order you to do what is proper,
1:9  yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—since I am such a person as Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus—
1:10  I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I fathered in my imprisonment,
1:11  who previously was useless to you, but now is useful both to you and to me.
1:12  I have sent him back to you in person, that is, sending my very heart,
1:13  whom I wanted to keep with me, so that in your behalf he might be at my service in my imprisonment for the gospel;
1:14  but I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion, but of your own free will.
1:15  For perhaps it was for this reason that he was separated from you for a while, that you would have him back forever,
1:16  no 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.
1:17  If then you regard me as a partner, accept him as you would me.
1:18  But if he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge that to my account;
1:19  I, Paul, have written this with my own hand, I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self as well).
1:20  Yes, brother, let me benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.
1:21  Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, since I know that you will do even more than what I say.
1:22  At the same time also prepare me a guest room, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given to you.
1:23  Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,
1:24  as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
1:25  The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.