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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church that meets at your house: |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I always thank my God, remembering you in my prayers, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5because I hear about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I pray that your partnership in the faith may become effective as you fully acknowledge every good thing that is ours in Christ. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I take great joy and encouragement in your love, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8So although in Christ I am bold enough to order you to do what is proper, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I prefer to appeal on the basis of love. For I, Paul, am now aged, and a prisoner of Christ Jesus as well. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I became while I was in chains. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I am sending back to you him who is my very heart. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I would have liked to keep him with me, so that on your behalf he could minister to me in my chains for the gospel. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness will not be out of compulsion, but by your own free will. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a while, so that you might have him back for good— |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a beloved brother. He is especially beloved to me, but even more so to you, both in person and in the Lord. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17So if you consider me a partner, receive him as you would receive me. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18But if he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge it to my account. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19I, Paul, write this with my own hand. I will repay it—not to mention that you owe me your very self. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22In the meantime, prepare a guest room for me, because I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you greetings, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. |
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