{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_8284/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_8284","id":"gutenberg_8284","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8284","summary":null,"tags":["Bible. Epistles of Paul","Bible. Philemon","Category: Classics of Literature","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"From www.ebible.org with slight reformatting by Martin Ward.\n\n\n\nBook 57 Philemon\n001:001 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,\n        to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,\n001:002 to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus, our fellow soldier,\n        and to the assembly in your house:\n001:003 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.\n001:004 I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,\n001:005 hearing of your love, and of the faith which you have toward\n        the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;\n001:006 that the fellowship of your faith may become effective,\n        in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us\n        in Christ Jesus.\n001:007 For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts\n        of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.\n001:008 Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command\n        you that which is appropriate,\n001:009 yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul,\n        the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.\n001:010 I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in\n        my chains, Onesimus,{Onesimus means \"useful.\"}\n001:011 who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.\n001:012 I am sending him back.  Therefore receive him, that is,\n        my own heart,\n001:013 whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might\n        serve me in my chains for the Good News.\n001:014 But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your\n        goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.\n001:015 For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while,\n        that you would have him forever,\n001:016 no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother,\n        especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh\n        and in the Lord.\n001:017 If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.\n001:018 But if he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything,\n        put that to my account.\n001:019 I, Paul, write this with my own hand:  I will repay it\n        (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your\n        own self besides).\n001:020 Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord.\n        Refresh my heart in the Lord.\n001:021 Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you,\n        knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.\n001:022 Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through\n        your prayers I will be restored to you.\n001:023 Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,\n001:024 as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.\n001:025 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.  Amen.","title":"The World English Bible (WEB): Philemon","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":480}