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1:1  From: Paul, a prisoner of the Messiah Jesus, and Timothy our brother. To: Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker,
1:2  to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house.
1:3  May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours!
1:4  I always thank my God when I mention you in my prayers,
1:5  because I keep hearing about your love for all the saints and the faith that you have in the Lord Jesus.
1:6  I pray that your partnership in the faith may become effective as you fully acknowledge every blessing that is ours in the Messiah.
1:7  For I have received considerable joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed, brother, through you.
1:8  For this reason, although in the Messiah I have complete freedom to order you to do what is proper,
1:9  I prefer to make my appeal on the basis of love. I, Paul, as an old man and now a prisoner of the Messiah Jesus,
1:10  appeal to you on behalf of my child Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment.
1:11  Once he was useless to you, but now he is very useful both to you and to me.
1:12  As I send him back, it's like I'm coming along with him.
1:13  I wanted to keep him with me so that he could serve me in your place during my imprisonment for the gospel.
1:14  Yet I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your good deed might not be something forced, but voluntary.
1:15  Perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a while, so that you could have him back forever,
1:16  no longer as a slave but better than a slave—as a dear brother, especially to me, but even more so to you, both as a person and as a believer.
1:17  So if you consider me a partner, welcome him as you would welcome me.
1:18  If he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge it to my account.
1:19  I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand: I will repay it. (I will not mention to you that you owe me your very life.)
1:20  Yes, brother, I desire this favor from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Messiah!
1:21  Confident of your obedience, I am writing to you because I know that you will do even more than I ask.
1:22  Meanwhile, prepare a guest room for me, too, for I am hoping through your prayers to be returned to you.
1:23  Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in the Messiah Jesus, sends you greetings,
1:24  as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
1:25  May the grace of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be with your spirit! Amen.