who once was unprofitable to you, but now is useful to you and to me,
And cast the useless servant into the darkness outside. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
for this my son was dead and came to life, and he was lost and was found.' And they began to be merry.
But it was necessary to be merry and to rejoice, because your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.' "
So likewise you, whenever you do all the things having been commanded to you, say, 'We are unprofitable servants. We have done what we ought to do.' "
All have turned aside; together they became unprofitable; there is not one doing kindness, there is not so much as one."
Luke alone is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for ministry.
I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I begot in my bonds,
whom I am sending back. You then receive him, that is, my very heart;
who formerly were not a people but now are the people of God, who had not received mercy, but now have received mercy.