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1:1  Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, and brother Timothy. To Philemon the beloved and our helper,
1:2  and to the beloved Apphia, and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the congregation of your house.
1:3  Grace be with you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:4  I thank my God, making mention always of you in my prayers,
1:5  when I hear of the love and faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints,
1:6  so that the fellowship that you have in the faith is fruitful through the knowledge of all good things, which are in you by Jesus Christ.
1:7  And we have great joy and consolation over your love. For by you, brother, the saints’ hearts are comforted.
1:8  Therefore, though I might be bold in Christ to enjoin that which behoves you,
1:9  yet for love’s sake I rather beseech you, though I be as I am, even Paul aged, and now in bonds for Jesus Christ’s sake.
1:10  I beseech you for my son Onesimus, whom I begat in my bonds –
1:11  who in time past was unprofitable to you, but is now able to profit both you and also me,
1:12  whom I have sent home again. Therefore receive him; that is to say, my own offspring,
1:13  whom I would gladly have retained with me so that on your behalf he could have ministered to me in the bonds of the gospel.
1:14  Nevertheless, without your consent I would do nothing, because the good that comes of you should not be, as it were, usurped through circumstance, but willing.
1:15  Perhaps he therefore departed for a season so that you would receive him forever,
1:16  not now as a servant, but above a servant; I mean a brother beloved, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and also in the Lord.
1:17  If you count me a fellow, receive him as myself.
1:18  If he has done you any wrong or owes you anything, lay it to my charge.
1:19  I, Paul, have written it with my own hand. I will recompense it. So I do not say to you that you owe to me even your own self.
1:20  Even so, brother, let me enjoy this fruit from you in the Lord. Comfort my heart in the Lord.
1:21  Trusting in your willingness, I have written to you, knowing that you will do more than I say.
1:22  Moreover, prepare a room for me. For I trust that through the help of your prayers, I shall be given to you.
1:23  Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
1:24  as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my helpers.
1:25  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits. Amen. Sent from Rome by the hands of Onesimus, a servant.