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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Philemon 1 King James 2000</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/philemon/1.htm" 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our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="black">Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</span></p> <p class="heading">Thanksgiving for Philemon's Love and Faith</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="black">I thank my God, making mention of you always in my prayers,</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="black">Hearing of your love and faith, which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="black">That the sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="black">For we have great joy and consolation in your love, because the hearts of the saints are refreshed by you, brother.</span></p> <p class="heading">Paul's Plea for Onesimus</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="black">Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you that which is required,</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="black">Yet for love's sake I rather beseech you, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="black">I beseech you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="black">Who in time past was to you unprofitable, but now profitable to you and to me:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="black">Whom I have sent again: you therefore receive him, that is, my own heart:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="black">Whom I would have retained with me, that in your stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="black">But without your consent would I do nothing; that your benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="black">For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that you should receive him forever;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="black">Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, especially to me, but how much more unto you, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?</span></p> <p class="heading">Receive Him as Myself</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="black">If you count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="black">If he has wronged you, or owes you anything, put that on my account;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="black">I Paul have written it with my own hand, I will repay it: nevertheless I do not say to you how you owe me even your own self besides.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="black">Yea, brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: refresh my heart in the Lord.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="black">Having confidence in your obedience I wrote unto you, knowing that you will also do more than I say.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="black">At the same time prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.</span></p> <p class="heading">Final Greetings</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="black">There greet you Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="black">Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow laborers.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/philemon/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="black">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. 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