I wanted to keep him with me so that he might minister to me in your place during my imprisonment for the gospel,
I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have made up for your absence,
This is the reason that I, Paul, am a prisoner for Christ Jesus for the sake of you gentiles,
I, therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because I hold you in my heart, for all of you are my partners in God’s grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.
because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for those services that you could not give me.
Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To our beloved coworker Philemon,
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.