¹Paul, prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timotheus the brother, to Philemon the beloved and our fellow-workman, ²and to the sister Apphia and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the assembly which is in thine house. ³Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴I thank my God, always making mention of thee at my prayers, ⁵hearing of thy love and the faith which thou hast towards the Lord Jesus, and towards all the saints, ⁶in 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. ⁷For we have great thankfulness and encouragement through thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

⁸Wherefore having much boldness in Christ to enjoin thee what is fitting, ⁹for love’s sake I rather exhort, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also prisoner of Jesus Christ. ¹⁰I exhort thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus, ¹¹once unserviceable to thee, but now serviceable to thee and to me:

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Philemon 6: … I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.

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