| 1:1 |
Paul a prisoner for Christ Jesus and Timothy our brother To Phile′monPhilemon our beloved fellow worker |
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and Ap′phiaApphia our sister and Archip′pusArchippus our fellow soldier and the church in your house: |
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because I hear of your love and of the faith whichthat you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints |
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and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promotebecome effective for the full knowledge of allevery the good thing that is ours in us for the sake of Christ |
| 1:9 |
yet for loves sake I prefer to appeal to you—I Paul an ambassadorold man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus— |
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I appeal to you for my child Ones′imusOnesimus whose father I havebecame become in my imprisonment |
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I would have been glad to keep him with me in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel; |
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but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free willaccord |
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PerhapsFor this perhaps is why he was parted from you for a while that you might have him back for ever forever |
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no longer as a slavebondservant but more than a slavebondservant as a beloved brother —especially to me but how much more to you both in the flesh and in the Lord |
| 1:19 |
I Paul write this with my own hand: I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self |
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At the same time prepare a guest room for me for I am hoping that through your prayers toI will be grantedgraciously given to you |
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Ep′aphrasEpaphras my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus sends greetings to you |
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and so do Mark Aristar′chusAristarchus Demas and Luke my fellow workers |