Formerly he was useless to you, but now –true to his name– he is of great use to you and to me.
`But as for this worthless servant, put him out into the darkness outside: there will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.'
for my son here was dead and has come to life again: he was lost and has been found.' »And they began to be merry.
We are bound to make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has come back to life, he was lost and has been found.'«
So you also, when you have obeyed all the orders given you, must say, »`There is no merit in our service: what we have done is only what we were in duty bound to do.'«
All have turned aside from the right path; they have every one of them become corrupt. There is no one who does what is right–no, not so much as one.«
Luke is the only friend I now have with me. Call for Mark on your way and bring him with you, for he is a great help to me in my ministry.
I entreat you on behalf of my own child whose father I have become while in my chains–I mean Onesimus.
I am sending him back to you, though in so doing I send part of myself.
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. Once you had not found mercy, but now you have.