Philemon 1:1-16 ▼

1 Paul the presoner of Iesu Christ and brother Timotheus.Vnto Philemon the beloved and oure helper

2 and to the beloved Appia and to Archippus oure felowe soudier and to the congregacion of thy housse.

3 Grace be with you and peace from God oure father and from the Lorde Iesus Christ.

4 I thake my God makinge mencio all wayes of the in my prayers

5 when I heare of thy love and fayth which thou hast towarde the Lorde Iesu and towarde all saynctes:

6 so that the fellisshippe that thou hast in the fayth is frutefull thorow knowledge of all good thinges which are in you by Iesus Christ.

7 And we have great ioye and consolacion over thy love: for by the (brother) the saynctes hertes are comforted.

8 Wherfore though I be bolde in Christ to enioyne the that which becometh the:

9 yet for loves sake I rather beseche the though I be as I am eve Paul aged and now in bondes for Iesu Christes sake.

10 I beseche the for my sonne Onesimus whom I begat in my bondes

11 which in tyme passed was to the vnproffetable: but now proffetable bothe to the and also to me

12 whom I have sent home agayne. Thou therfore receave him that is to saye myne awne bowels

13 whom I wolde fayne have retayned with me that in thy stede he myght have ministred vnto me in ye bondes of the gospell.

14 Neverthelesse without thy mynde wolde I doo nothinge that yt good which springeth of the shuld not be as it were of necessitie but willingly.

15 Haply he therfore departed for a season yt thou shuldest receave him for ever

16 not nowe as a servaut: but above a servaunt I meane a brother beloved specially to me: but how moche more vnto the both in the flesshe and also in the Lorde?