¹Paul, a prisoner of the Anointed One Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our beloved fellow worker,

²and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the assembly at your house:

³Favor to you and wholeness from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Anointed One.

⁴I thank my God always, making mention of you upon my prayers,

⁵hearing of your love and the trust that you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the holy ones,

⁶so that the fellowship of your trust may become effective in the acknowledgment of every good thing that is in us in the Anointed One Jesus.

⁷For I had great joy and comfort over your love, because the inward affections of the holy ones have been refreshed through you, brother.

⁸Therefore, having much boldness in the Anointed One to order you what is befitting,

⁹for the sake of love I rather exhort you, being such a one as Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner of the Anointed One Jesus;

¹⁰I exhort you for my child whom I have begotten in my chains, Onesimus,

¹¹who once was useless to you, but now is useful both to you and to me,

¹²whom I have now sent back to you in person — who is my very heart — receive him yourself.

¹³Whom I myself was wishing to keep with myself, so that on your behalf he may serve me in the chains of the good news;

¹⁴however, apart from your consent I wished to do no thing, so that your good may be not as according to necessity but according to willingness.

¹⁵For perhaps because of this he was separated from you for a time, so that you may possess him eternally;

¹⁶but no longer as a slave, above a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord?

¹⁷Therefore, if you consider me a partner, receive him yourself as me.

¹⁸However, if in any way he has wronged you or owes you, charge this to me.

¹⁹I myself, Paul, did write with my own hand, I myself will repay it; that I may not say to you that you owe even yourself to me also.

²⁰Yes, brother, I myself would have profit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in the Anointed One.

²¹Having been persuaded of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even above what things I say.

²²Now at the same time also prepare a lodging for me; for I hope that through your prayers I will be granted to you.

²³Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in the Anointed One Jesus, greets you,

²⁴as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.

²⁵The favor of our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, be with your spirit. Amen. To Philemon it was written from Rome through Onesimus the servant.