| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved brother and fellow worker, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house: |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints; |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6and I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective through the knowledge of every good thing which is in you for Christ's sake. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7For I have come to have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Therefore, though I have enough confidence in Christ to order you to do what is proper, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9yet for love's sake I rather appeal to you-- since I am such a person as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus-- |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my imprisonment, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11who formerly was useless to you, but now is useful both to you and to me. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I have sent him back to you in person, that is, sending my very heart, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13whom I wished to keep with me, so that on your behalf he might minister to me in my imprisonment for the gospel; |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For perhaps he was for this reason separated from you for a while, that you would have him back forever, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17If then you regard me a partner, accept him as you would me. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18But if he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge that to my account; |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand, I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self as well). |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Yes, brother, let me benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, since I know that you will do even more than what I say. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22At the same time also prepare me a lodging, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given to you. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, 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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