1. Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,
2. to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus, our fellow soldier, and to the assembly 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. hearing of your love, and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;
6. that the fellowship of your faith may become effective, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.
7. For we 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 all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,
9. yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.