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Philemon

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Greetings from Paul and Timothy

1 PAUL the prisoner of Christ JESUS, and brother Timothee: to Philemon the beloved and our coadjutor,📜💬📚

2 and to Appia our dearest sister, and to Archippus our fellow-soldier and to the church which is in thy house.📜💬📚

3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and our Lord JESUS Christ.📜💬📚

Philemon's Faith and Love

4 I give thanks to my God, always making a memory of thee in my prayers,📜💬📚

5 hearing thy charity & faith which thou hast in our Lord JESUS, and toward all the saints:📜💬📚

6 that the communication of thy faith may be made evident in the agnition of all good that is in you in Christ JESUS.📜💬📚

7 For I have had great joy and consolation in thy charity, because the bowels of the saints have rested by thee brother.📜💬📚

Paul's Appeal for Onesimus

8 For the which thing having great confidence in Christ JESUS to command thee that, which pertaineth to the purpose:📜💬📚

9 for charity rather I beseech, whereas thou art such an one, as Paul being old and now prisoner also of JESUS Christ.📜💬📚

10 I beseech thee for my son whom I have begotten in bands, Onesimus,📜💬📚

11 who hath been sometime unprofitable to thee, but now profitable both to me and thee,📜💬📚

12 whom I have sent back to thee. And do thou receive him as mine own bowels.📜💬📚

13 Whom I would have retained with me, that for thee he might minister to me in the bands of the Gospel:📜💬📚

14 but without thy counsel I would do nothing: that thy good might be not as it were of necessity, but voluntary.📜💬📚

15 For perhaps therefore he departed for a season from thee, that thou mightest take him again for ever.📜💬📚

16 Now not as a servant, but for a servant, a most dear brother, especially to me, but how much more to thee both in the flesh and in our Lord?📜💬📚

17 If therefore thou take me for thy fellow; receive him as my self.📜💬📚

18 And if he hath hurt thee any thing or is in thy debt, that, impute to me.📜💬📚

19 I, Paul have written with mine own hand: I will repay it: not to say to thee, that thou owest me thine own self also.📜💬📚

20 Yea brother. God grant I may enjoy thee in our Lord. Refresh my bowels in our Lord.📜💬📚

21 Trusting in thy obedience I have written to thee, knowing that thou wilt do above that also which I do say.📜💬📚

22 And withal provide me also a lodging. For I hope by your prayers that I shall be given to you.📜💬📚

Additional Greetings

23 There salute thee Epaphras my fellow-prisoner in Christ JESUS,📜💬📚

24 Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke my coadjutors.📜💬📚

25 The grace of our Lord JESUS Christ be with your spirit. Amen.📜💬📚