{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_8845/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_8845","id":"gutenberg_8845","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8845","summary":null,"tags":["Bible. Epistles of Paul","Bible. Philemon","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"Produced by Martin Ward\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWeymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Philemon\n\nThird Edition 1913\n\n\n\nR. F. Weymouth\n\n\n\n\nBook 57 Philemon\n\n001:001 Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother:\n        To Philemon our dearly-loved fellow labourer--\n\n001:002 and to our sister Apphia and our comrade Archippus--\n        as well as to the Church in your house.\n\n001:003 May grace be granted to you all, and peace, from God our Father\n        and the Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n001:004 I give continual thanks to my God while making mention of you,\n        my brother, in my prayers,\n\n001:005 because I hear of your love and of the faith which you\n        have towards the Lord Jesus and which you manifest towards\n        all God's people;\n\n001:006 praying as I do, that their participation in your faith may\n        result in others fully recognizing all the right affection\n        that is in us toward Christ.\n\n001:007 For I have found great joy and comfort in your love,\n        because the hearts of God's people have been, and are,\n        refreshed through you, my brother.\n\n001:008 Therefore, though I might with Christ's authority speak\n        very freely and order you to do what is fitting,\n\n001:009 it is for love's sake that--instead of that--although I am\n        none other than Paul the aged, and am now also a prisoner\n        for Christ Jesus,\n\n001:010 I entreat you on behalf of my own child whose father I have\n        become while in my chains--I mean Onesimus.\n\n001:011 Formerly he was useless to you, but now--true to his name--\n        he is of great use to you and to me.\n\n001:012 I am sending him back to you, though in so doing I send\n        part of myself.\n\n001:013 It was my wish to keep him at my side for him to attend\n        to my wants, as your representative, during my imprisonment\n        for the Good News.\n\n001:014 Only I wished to do nothing without your consent, so that\n        his kind action of yours might not be done under pressure,\n        but might be a voluntary one.\n\n001:015 For perhaps it was for this reason he was parted from you for a time,\n        that you might receive him back wholly and for ever yours;\n\n001:016 no longer as a slave, but as something better than a slave--\n        a brother peculiarly dear to me, and even dearer to you,\n        both as a servant and as a fellow Christian.\n\n001:017 If therefore you regard me as a comrade, receive him as if\n        he were I myself.\n\n001:018 And if he was ever dishonest or is in your debt, debit me\n        with the amount.\n\n001:019 I Paul write this with my own hand--I will pay you in full.\n        (I say nothing of the fact that you owe me even your own self.)\n\n001:020 Yes, brother, do me this favour for the Lord's sake.\n        Refresh my heart in Christ.\n\n001:021 I write to you in the full confidence that you will meet my wishes,\n        for I know you will do even more than I say.\n\n001:022 And at the same time provide accommodation for me; for I hope\n        that through your prayers I shall be permitted to come to you.\n\n001:023 Greetings to you, my brother, from Epaphras my fellow prisoner\n        for the sake of Christ Jesus;\n\n001:024 and from Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.\n\n001:025 May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with the spirit\n        of every one of you.","title":"Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Philemon","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":570}