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Philemon 1:11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.

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As for this worthless slave, throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

for this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ And they began to celebrate.

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.’ ”

So you also, when you have done all that you were ordered to do, say, ‘We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done!’ ”

All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness; there is not even one.”

Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me in ministry.

I am appealing to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment.

I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you.

Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.