* BOOK57 PHILEMON
= CHAPTER 1 
# 1 PAUL, A PRISONER OF JESUS CHRIST, AND TIMOTHY OUR BROTHER, UNTO PHILEMON
 OUR DEARLY BELOVED, AND FELLOWLABOURER,
# 2 AND TO OUR BELOVED APPHIA, AND ARCHIPPUS OUR FELLOWSOLDIER, AND TO THE
 CHURCH IN THY HOUSE:
# 3 GRACE TO YOU, AND PEACE, FROM GOD OUR FATHER AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
# 4 I THANK MY GOD, MAKING MENTION OF THEE ALWAYS IN MY PRAYERS,
# 5 HEARING OF THY LOVE AND FAITH, WHICH THOU HAST TOWARD THE LORD JESUS, AND
 TOWARD ALL SAINTS;
# 6 THAT THE COMMUNICATION OF THY FAITH MAY BECOME EFFECTUAL BY THE
 ACKNOWLEDGING OF EVERY GOOD THING WHICH IS IN YOU IN CHRIST JESUS.
# 7 FOR WE HAVE GREAT JOY AND CONSOLATION IN THY LOVE, BECAUSE THE BOWELS OF
 THE SAINTS ARE REFRESHED BY THEE, BROTHER.
# 8 WHEREFORE, THOUGH I MIGHT BE MUCH BOLD IN CHRIST TO ENJOIN THEE THAT
 WHICH IS CONVENIENT,
# 9 YET FOR LOVES SAKE I RATHER BESEECH THEE, BEING SUCH AN ONE AS PAUL THE
 AGED, AND NOW ALSO A PRISONER OF JESUS CHRIST.
# 10 I BESEECH THEE FOR MY SON ONESIMUS, WHOM I HAVE BEGOTTEN IN MY BONDS:
# 11 WHICH IN TIME PAST WAS TO THEE UNPROFITABLE, BUT NOW PROFITABLE TO THEE
 AND TO ME:
# 12 WHOM I HAVE SENT AGAIN: THOU THEREFORE RECEIVE HIM, THAT IS, MINE OWN
 BOWELS:
# 13 WHOM I WOULD HAVE RETAINED WITH ME, THAT IN THY STEAD HE MIGHT HAVE
 MINISTERED UNTO ME IN THE BONDS OF THE GOSPEL:
# 14 BUT WITHOUT THY MIND WOULD I DO NOTHING; THAT THY BENEFIT SHOULD NOT BE
 AS IT WERE OF NECESSITY, BUT WILLINGLY.
# 15 FOR PERHAPS HE THEREFORE DEPARTED FOR A SEASON, THAT THOU SHOULDEST
 RECEIVE HIM FOR EVER;
# 16 NOT NOW AS A SERVANT, BUT ABOVE A SERVANT, A BROTHER BELOVED, SPECIALLY
 TO ME, BUT HOW MUCH MORE UNTO THEE, BOTH IN THE FLESH, AND IN THE LORD?
# 17 IF THOU COUNT ME THEREFORE A PARTNER, RECEIVE HIM AS MYSELF.
# 18 IF HE HATH WRONGED THEE, OR OWETH THEE OUGHT, PUT THAT ON MINE ACCOUNT;
# 19 I PAUL HAVE WRITTEN IT WITH MINE OWN HAND, I WILL REPAY IT: ALBEIT I DO
 NOT SAY TO THEE HOW THOU OWEST UNTO ME EVEN THINE OWN SELF BESIDES.
# 20 YEA, BROTHER, LET ME HAVE JOY OF THEE IN THE LORD: REFRESH MY BOWELS IN
 THE LORD.
# 21 HAVING CONFIDENCE IN THY OBEDIENCE I WROTE UNTO THEE, KNOWING THAT THOU
 WILT ALSO DO MORE THAN I SAY.
# 22 BUT WITHAL PREPARE ME ALSO A LODGING: FOR I TRUST THAT THROUGH YOUR
 PRAYERS I SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO YOU.
# 23 THERE SALUTE THEE EPAPHRAS, MY FELLOWPRISONER IN CHRIST JESUS;
# 24 MARCUS, ARISTARCHUS, DEMAS, LUCAS, MY FELLOWLABOURERS.
# 25 THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOUR SPIRIT. AMEN.
