Philemon 1:11

World Messianic Bible British Edition

who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.

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Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

for this, my son, was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”

Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’”

They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.

I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have become the father of in my chains,

I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.