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{\MT The Epistle of Paul to Philemon

\par }\OneChap {\PP \VerseOne{1}Paul, prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timotheus the brother, to Philemon the beloved and our fellow-workman,
\VS{2}and to the sister Apphia and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the assembly which [is] in thine house.
\VS{3}Grace to you and peace from
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 1:3 }Elohim}God our Father, and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.
\VS{4}I thank my
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 1:4 }Elohim}God, always making mention of thee at my prayers,
\VS{5}hearing of thy love and the faith which thou hast towards the Lord Jesus, and towards all the saints,
\VS{6}in such sort that thy participation in the faith should become operative in the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in us towards Christ [Jesus].
\VS{7}For we have great thankfulness and encouragement through thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
\VS{8}Wherefore having much boldness in Christ to enjoin thee what is fitting,
\VS{9}for love's sake I rather exhort, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also prisoner of Jesus Christ.
\VS{10}I exhort thee for
{\BD{my}} child, whom I have begotten in [my] bonds, Onesimus,
\VS{11}once unserviceable to thee, but now serviceable to thee and to me:
\VS{12}whom I have sent back to thee: [but do
{\BD{thou}} receive] him, that is,
{\BD{my}} bowels:
\VS{13}whom
{\BD{I}} was desirous of keeping with myself, that for thee he might minister to me in the bonds of the glad tidings;
\VS{14}but I have wished to do nothing without thy mind, that thy good might not be as of necessity but of willingness:
\VS{15}for perhaps for this reason he has been separated [from thee] for a time, that thou mightest possess him fully for ever;
\VS{16}not any longer as a bondman, but above a bondman, a beloved brother, specially to me, and how much rather to thee, both in [the] flesh and in [the] Lord?
\VS{17}If therefore thou holdest me to be a partner [with thee], receive him as me;
\VS{18}but if he have wronged thee anything or owe anything [to thee], put this to my account.
\VS{19}{\BD{I}} Paul have written [it] with mine own hand;
{\BD{I}} will repay [it]: that I say not to thee that thou owest even thine own self also to me.
\VS{20}Yea, brother,
{\BD{I}} would have profit of
{\BD{thee}} in [the] Lord: refresh my bowels in Christ.
\VS{21}Being confident of thine obedience, I have written to thee, knowing that thou wilt do even more than I say.
\VS{22}But withal prepare me also a lodging; for I hope that I shall be granted to you through your prayers.
\VS{23}Epaphras salutes thee, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus;
\VS{24}Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow-workmen.
\VS{25}The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit.
\par }