⁴⸤Philemon,⸥ I always thank my God when I mention you in my prayers because ⁵I hear about your faithfulness to the Lord Jesus and your love for all of God’s people. ⁶As you share the faith you have in common with others, I pray that you may come to have a complete knowledge of every blessing we have in Christ. ⁷Your love ⸤for God’s people⸥ gives me a lot of joy and encouragement. You, brother, have comforted God’s people.

Paul’s Advice about Onesimus

⁸Christ makes me bold enough to order you to do the right thing. ⁹However, I would prefer to make an appeal on the basis of love. I, Paul, as an old man and now a prisoner for Christ Jesus, ¹⁰appeal to you for my child Onesimus ^[Useful^[. I became his spiritual father here in prison. ¹¹Once he was useless to you, but now he is very useful to both of us.

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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.

Footnotes

a 3 Or “Grace.”
[Proper names or foreign words whose meaning is significant for understanding a particular Bible passage are translated in brackets following the name or phrase