Writ to Philemon


 * 1) From Paul, who is a bondsman for the sake of Christ Jesus, and our brother Timothy. To Philemon our beloved coworker,


 * 1) Apphia, our sister, Archippus, our fellow warrior, and the church that meets in your house.


 * 1) May the kindness and frith from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.


 * 1) Philemon, I thank my God every time I name-drop you in my bids


 * 1) for I’ve heard of your love and trustiness, which you have both for the Lord Jesus and for all God’s folk.


 * 1) I bid that your fellowship in the lief might become workly by an understanding of all that is good among us in Christ.


 * 1) I have great glee and heartness for the sake of your love, since the hearts of God’s folk are edfreshed by your deeds, my brother.


 * 1) Therefore, though I have enough boldness in Christ to bebid you to do the right thing,


 * 1) I would rather call upon you through love. I, Paul—an old man, and now also a bondsman for Christ Jesus—


 * 1) call upon you for my child Onesimus. I became his father in the lief during my time in lockup.


 * 1) He was brookless to you before, but now he is brookful to both of us.


 * 1) I’m sending him back to you, which is like sending you my own heart.


 * 1) I thought about keeping him with me so that he could thane me in your stead during my time in lockup for the sake of the gospel.


 * 1) However, I didn’t want to do anything without your okay, so that your deed of kindness would happen willingly and not under thringmight.


 * 1) Maybe this is the orsake that Onesimus was sundered from you for a while, so that you could have him back forever—


 * 1) no longer as a thrall but more than a thrall—that is, as a beloved brother. He is moreso a beloved brother to me. How much more can he become a brother to you, selfly and ghostly in the Lord!


 * So, if you truly think of me as a mate, welcome Onesimus as if you were welcoming me.


 * 1) If he has harmed you in any way or owes you penny, tally it on my ledger.


 * I, Paul, will pay it back to you (I’m writing this with my own hand). Of course, I won’t speak that you owe me your life.


 * Yes, brother, I want this kindness from you in the Lord! Edfresh my heart in Christ.


 * 1) I’m writing to you, sure of your hearsomeness and knowing that you will do more than what I ask.


 * 1) Also, one more thing—arready a guest room for me. I hope that I will be aleased from lock-up to be with you for the sake of your bids.


 * 1) Epaphras, who is in lock-up with me for the sake of Christ Jesus, greets you,


 * 1) as well as my fellow-workers Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke.


 * 1) May the kindness of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your ghost.