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1:1  Paul, prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timotheus the brother, to Philemon the beloved and our fellow-workman,
1:2  and to the sister Apphia and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the assembly which is in thine 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 thee at my prayers,
1:5  hearing of thy love and the faith which thou hast towards the Lord Jesus, and towards all the saints,
1:6  in such sort that thy participation in the faith should become operative in the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in us towards Christ Jesus.
1:7  For we have great thankfulness and encouragement through thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
1:8  Wherefore having much boldness in Christ to enjoin thee what is fitting,
1:9  for love's sake I rather exhort, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also prisoner of Jesus Christ.
1:10  I exhort thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,
1:11  once unserviceable to thee, but now serviceable to thee and to me:
1:12  whom I have sent back to thee: but do thou receive him, that is, my bowels:
1:13  whom I was desirous of keeping with myself, that for thee he might minister to me in the bonds of the glad tidings;
1:14  but I have wished to do nothing without thy mind, that thy good might not be as of necessity but of willingness:
1:15  for perhaps for this reason he has been separated from thee for a time, that thou mightest possess him fully for ever;
1:16  not any longer as a bondman, but above a bondman, a beloved brother, specially to me, and how much rather to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord?
1:17  If therefore thou holdest me to be a partner with thee, receive him as me;
1:18  but if he have wronged thee anything or owe anything to thee, put this to my account.
1:19  I Paul have written it with mine own hand; I will repay it: that I say not to thee that thou owest even thine own self also to me.
1:20  Yea, brother, I would have profit of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in Christ.
1:21  Being confident of thine obedience, I have written to thee, knowing that thou wilt do even more than I say.
1:22  But withal prepare me also a lodging; for I hope that I shall be granted to you through your prayers.
1:23  Epaphras salutes thee, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus;
1:24  Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow-workmen.
1:25  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.