빌레몬서 1장 NASB
- 1 Paul a prisoner of Christ Jesus and Timothy our brother To Philemon our beloved brother and fellow worker
- 2 and to Apphia our sister and to Archippus our fellow soldier and to the church in your house:
- 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 4 I thank my God always making mention of you in my prayers
- 5 because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints;
- 6 and I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective through the knowledge of every good thing which is in you for Christ's sake.
- 7 For I have come to have much joy and comfort in your love because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you brother.
- 8 Therefore though I have enough confidence in Christ to order you to do what is proper
- 9 yet for love's sake I rather appeal to you--since I am such a person as Paul the aged and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus--
- 10 I appeal to you for my child Onesimus whom I have begotten in my imprisonment
- 11 who formerly was useless to you but now is useful both to you and to me.
- 12 I have sent him back to you in person that is sending my very heart
- 13 whom I wished to keep with me so that on your behalf he might minister to me in my imprisonment for the gospel;
- 14 but without your consent I did not want to do anything so that your goodness would not be in effect by compulsion but of your own free will.
- 15 For perhaps he was for this reason separated from you for a while that you would have him back forever
- 16 no longer as a slave but more than a slave a beloved brother especially to me but how much more to you both in the flesh and in the Lord.
- 17 If then you regard me a partner accept him as you would me.
- 18 But if he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything charge that to my account;
- 19 I Paul am writing this with my own hand I will repay it ( not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self as well).
- 20 Yes brother let me benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.
- 21 Having confidence in your obedience I write to you since I know that you will do even more than what I say.
- 22 At the same time also prepare me a lodging for I hope that through your prayers I will be given to you.
- 23 Epaphras my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus greets you
- 24 as do Mark Aristarchus Demas Luke my fellow workers.
- 25 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.