Philemon 1 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ 0 I beseech thee for my son, whom I have begotten in my bands, Onesimus,

² 1 Who hath been heretofore unprofitable to thee, but now is profitable both to me and thee,

³ 2 Whom I have sent back to thee. And do thou receive him as my own bowels.

⁴ 3 Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered to me in the bands of the gospel:

⁵ 4 But without thy counsel I would do nothing: that thy good deed might not be as it were of necessity, but voluntary.

⁶ 5 For perhaps he therefore departed for a season from thee, that thou mightest receive him again for ever:

⁷ 6 Not now as a servant, but instead of a servant, a most dear brother, especially to me: but how much more to thee both in the flesh and in the Lord?

⁸ 7 If therefore thou count me a partner, receive him as myself.

⁹ 8 And if he hath wronged thee in any thing, or is in thy debt, put that to my account.

¹⁰ 9 I Paul have written it with my own hand: I will repay it: not to say to thee, that thou owest me thy own self also.

¹¹ 0 Yea, brother. May I enjoy thee in the Lord. Refresh my bowels in the Lord.

¹² 1 Trusting in thy obedience, I have written to thee: knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.

¹³ 2 But withal prepare me also a lodging. For I hope that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.

¹⁴ 3 There salute thee Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus;

¹⁵ 4 Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke my fellow labourers.

¹⁶ 5 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

¹⁷ God, who, at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, last of all,

¹⁸ In these days hath spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world.

¹⁹ Who being the brightness of his glory, and the figure of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, making purgation of sins, sitteth on the right hand of the majesty on high.

²⁰ Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath inherited a more excellent name than they.

²¹ For to which of the angels hath he said at any time, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

²² And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith: And let all the angels of God adore him.

²³ And to the angels indeed he saith: He that maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

²⁴ But to the Son: Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of justice is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

²⁵ Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.