Philemon 1:23 Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you greetings.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you greetings.

English Standard Version
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,

New American Standard Bible
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,

King James Bible
There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you, and so do

International Standard Version
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in the Messiah Jesus, sends you greetings,

American Standard Version
Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus, saluteth thee;

Douay-Rheims Bible
There salute thee Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus;

Darby Bible Translation
Epaphras salutes thee, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus;

Young's Literal Translation
Salute thee doth Epaphras, (my fellow-captive in Christ Jesus,)

Cross References

Romans 16:7
Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

Colossians 1:7
As you also learned of Epaphras our dear fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;

Colossians 4:10
Aristarchus my fellow prisoner salutes you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom you received commandments: if he come to you, receive him;)

Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Philemon 1:1
Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellow laborer,

Philemon 1:9
Yet for love's sake I rather beseech you, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

1:23-25 Never have believers found more enjoyment of God, than when suffering together for him. Grace is the best wish for ourselves and others; with this the apostle begins and ends. All grace is from Christ; he purchased, and he bestows it. What need we more to make us happy, than to have the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with our spirit? Let us do that now, which we should do at the last breath. Then men are ready to renounce the world, and to prefer the least portion of grace and faith before a kingdom.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

23. The same persons send salutations in the accompanying Epistle, except that "Jesus Justus" is not mentioned here.

Epaphras, my fellow prisoner—He had been sent by the Colossian Church to inquire after, and minister to, Paul, and possibly was cast into prison by the Roman authorities on suspicion. However, he is not mentioned as a prisoner in Col 4:12, so that "fellow prisoner" here may mean merely one who was a faithful companion to Paul in his imprisonment, and by his society put himself in the position of a prisoner. So also "Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner," Col 4:10, may mean. Benson conjectures the meaning to be that on some former occasion these two were Paul's "fellow prisoners," not at the time.