1Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy…
2to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow…
3Grace and peace to you from God our…
4I always thank my God, remembering you in…
5because I hear about your faith in the…
6I pray that your partnership in the faith…
7I take great joy and encouragement in your…
8So although in Christ I am bold enough…
9I prefer to appeal on the basis of…
10I appeal to you for my child Onesimus,…
11Formerly he was useless to you, but now…
12I am sending back to you him who…
13I would have liked to keep him with…
14But I did not want to do anything…
15For perhaps this is why he was separated…
16no longer as a slave, but better than…
17So if you consider me a partner, receive…
18But if he has wronged you in any…
19I, Paul, write this with my own hand.…
20Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from…
21Confident of your obedience, I write to you,…
22In the meantime, prepare a guest room for…
23Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends…
24as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my…
25The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be…
