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- Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved brother and fellow worker,
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- and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house:
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- Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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- I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,
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- because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints;
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- and 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.
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- For I have come to have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
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- Therefore, though I have enough confidence in Christ to order you to do what is proper,
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- yet for love's sake I rather appeal to yousince I am such a person as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus
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- I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my imprisonment,
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- who formerly was useless to you, but now is useful both to you and to me.
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- I have sent him back to you in person, that is, sending my very heart,
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- whom I wished to keep with me, so that on your behalf he might minister to me in my imprisonment for the gospel;
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- but 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.
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- For perhaps he was for this reason separated from you for a while, that you would have him back forever,
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- no 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.
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- If then you regard me a partner, accept him as you would me.
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- But if he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge that to my account;
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- I, 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).
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- Yes, brother, let me benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.
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- Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, since I know that you will do even more than what I say.
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- At the same time also prepare me a lodging, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given to you.
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- Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,
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- as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow workers.
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- The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
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