Philemon 1 Cross References - MLV

¹ Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow worker, ² and to the beloved Apphia and to Archippus our fellow soldier and to the congregation in your house: ³ grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
⁴ I am always giving-thanks to my God, making a remembrance of you in my prayers, ⁵ hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the holy-ones; ⁶ that the fellowship of your faith might become effective in the full knowledge of every good thing, which is in you, to Christ Jesus. ⁷ For we have much gratitude and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the holy-ones have been given-rest through you, brother.
⁸ Hence, having much boldness in Christ to command you what is proper, ⁹ yet because of love I would rather encourage you, being such a one as Paul the elderly-man and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. ¹⁰ I am encouraging you concerning my child, whom I have fathered in my bonds, Onesimus, ¹¹ who was not useful to you previously, but is useful to you now and to me whom I have sent back to you. ¹² But you, receive him, this is my heart; ¹³ whom I was planning to hold here for myself, in order that he might serve me in the bonds of the good-news on your behalf. ¹⁴ But I wished to do nothing without your viewpoint; in order that your good deed may not be according to necessity, but according to your voluntary deed. ¹⁵ For perhaps because of this, he was separated from you for a season, in order that you may have him in the everlasting world; ¹⁶ no longer as a bondservant, but beyond a bondservant, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. ¹⁷ Therefore, if you have me like a partner, receive him like myself. ¹⁸ But if he has wronged you in anything or owes you anything, charge this to my account. ¹⁹ I, Paul, write it with my own hand. I will be compensating you; in order that I may not say to you, You are even owing yourself to me. ²⁰ Yes, brother, let me derive benefit from you in the Lord. Give-rest to my heart in the Lord.
²¹ I wrote to you, having confidence in your obedience, knowing that you will be doing even beyond what I am saying. ²² But also at the same time, prepare me a lodging. For I am hoping that through your prayers I will be granted to you.
²³ Epaphras, my fellow captive in Christ Jesus, greets you; ²⁴ so do my fellow workers Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke.
²⁵ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with your spirit. Amen.

⁹ For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s cultivation, God’s building.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will be of God and Timothy our brother, to the congregation of God who are in Corinth, together with all the holy-ones who are in the whole of Achaia:

¹ Because of this, I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

¹ Therefore, I, the prisoner in the Lord, am encouraging you to walk worthily of the calling in which you were called,

²⁰ on behalf of which, I am an ambassador in a chain; in order that I should speak boldly in it, as it is essential for me to speak.

²⁵ But I deemed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your ambassador and minister to my need;

³ Yes, I am also requesting you, genuine colleague, help these women, who contended together with me in the good-news, also with Clement, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

¹¹ and Jesus who is called Justus, who is from the circumcision. These are my only fellow workers in the kingdom of God, those who became a comfort to me.

² And we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant and our fellow worker in the good-news of the Christ, that he might establish you and to encourage you concerning your faith;

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

⁸ Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor me, his prisoner, but suffer-hardship together with the good-news according to the power of God, ⁹ yet because of love I would rather encourage you, being such a one as Paul the elderly-man and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

²⁴ so do my fellow workers Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke.

⁵ and the congregation who is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first-fruit of Achaia to Christ.

¹⁹ The congregations of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord, together with the congregation in their house.

¹⁵ Greet the brethren who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the congregation which is in his house.

¹⁷ And say to Archippus, Beware that the service which you have received in the Lord, that you should fulfill it.

³ Therefore suffer evil treatment as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. ⁴ No active soldier entangles himself in the tradeoffs of this life, in order that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.

⁷ To all those who are in Rome, beloved of God, called holy-ones: grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, is with all of you.
Amen.

² grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸ First indeed, I am giving-thanks to my God through Jesus Christ on behalf of all of you, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world.

¹⁶ am not ceasing giving-thanks on your behalf, making a remembrance of you in my prayers;

³ I am giving-thanks to my God upon every remembrance of you,

³ We are giving-thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying concerning you,

² We are always giving-thanks to God concerning all of you, making a remembrance of you in our prayers; ³ Brethren, we always ought to thank God concerning you, just-as it is worthy, because your faith is growing substantially, and the love of each one of you all toward one another is increasing;

³ I have gratitude to God, to whom I am giving-divine service from my ancestors in a clean conscience, as I have constant remembrance concerning you in my supplications, night and day.

³ As for the holy ones who are in the earth, they are the excellent in whom is all my delight.

³⁹ Now having stood up, Peter went together with them, those who had come to him, and they led him into the upstairs-room. And all the widows stood by him weeping and showing the tunics and garments; as many as Dorcas was making, when she was with them. ⁴⁰ But when Peter cast them all outside; having placed his knees down, he prayed, and having turned again to the body, he said, Tabitha, rise up. And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up. ⁴¹ Now he gave her his hand and stood her up, and summoning the holy-ones and widows, he presented her as living.

¹³ sharing in the needs of the holy-ones; pursuing your hospitality.

²⁵ But now, I am traveling to Jerusalem, serving the holy-ones. ²⁶ For Macedonia and Achaia were delighted to make a certain generosity to the poor of the holy-ones in Jerusalem.

¹ Now concerning the collection which is for the holy-ones, just-as I commanded to the congregations of Galatia, so you also, practice such!

⁶ For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision prevails over anything in Christ Jesus, but faith working through love.

¹⁵ Because of this, I, also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is in you and the love which you have toward all the holy-ones,

⁴ having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the holy-ones,

⁷ For we have much gratitude and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the holy-ones have been given-rest through you, brother.

²³ And this is his commandment, in order that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and should love one another, just-as he gave commandment to us.

¹ Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born from God and everyone who loves the one who fathered us, also loves the one who has been born from him. ² We know in this that we love the children of God, whenever we love God and whenever we are keeping his commandments.

¹⁶ So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and may glorify your Father, the one in the heavens.

²⁵ And thus, the secret things of his heart become apparent, and so, when he has fallen down upon his face, he will be worshiping God, reporting that God really is among you.

¹² Because the service of this ministry not only is replenishing the things lacking of the holy-ones, but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God; ¹³ because through the trial of you from this service they are glorifying God upon the subjection of your confession toward the good-news of the Christ and at the liberality of your generosity toward them and toward all; ¹⁴ and in their supplication on your behalf, a longing-for you because of the surpassing grace of God upon you.

⁹ And I am praying for this: in order that your love may abound still more and more in full knowledge and all comprehension; ¹⁰ that you may approve the things which are carrying more-value; in order that you may be sincere and guilt-free in the day of Christ; ¹¹ having been filled with the fruits of righteousness, which is through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

⁸ Furthermore brethren, as many things as are true, as many as are honorable, as many as are righteous, as many as are pure, as many as are lovely, as many as have good-repute; if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, reason on these things.

⁹ Because of this, we also do not cease praying and asking on your behalf from the day we heard it, in order that you may be filled with the full knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and intelligence,

¹⁴ But let our people also learn to establish themselves foremost in good works for the necessary needs, in order that they may not be unfruitful.

¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the labor of the love which you showed toward his name, having served the holy-ones and still serving them.

¹⁴ My brethren, what is the profit, if someone says he has faith, but does not have works? Is that faith able to save him?

¹⁷ So also your faith, if it does not have works, is dead in itself.

⁵ who are kept through faith in the power of God, into a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. ⁶ In which hope you are glad now for a few moments, if it is essential, you have been made sorrowful in various tests, ⁷ in order that the trial of your faith, ( being much more precious than gold, which perishes), even now being tested through fire, may be found for praise and honor and to glory in the revelation of Jesus Christ.
⁸ You love whom you have not seen; now you believe in whom you do not see; in both you are glad with unspeakable and glorified joy;

¹² having your good conduct seen among the Gentiles; in order that, in what they are speaking against you, as evildoers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, having eye-witnessed things from your good works.

¹ Likewise, wives be subject to your own husbands; in order that, even if some are disobedient to the word, they might be gained without a word through the conduct of their wives;

¹⁶ having a good conscience; in order that, in what they are speaking against you as evildoers, they may be ashamed who are railing at your good conduct in Christ.

⁸ For if these things are existing and increasing in you, none will designate you idle or unfruitful toward the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ My boldness of speech toward you is much; my boasting on your behalf is much. I have been filled with your encouragement. I over-abound with joy in all our affliction.

¹³ Because of this, we have been encouraged in your encouragement, we rejoiced even-more upon the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been given-rest from all of you.

³ constantly remembering your work of the faith, and labor of love, and of the endurance of the hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father,

¹³ And we also are constantly giving-thanks to God because of this, because, when you accepted the word of God from our report, you accepted it not as the word of men, but just-as it truly is, the word of God, which is also working in you who believe.

¹⁹ For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting, or is it not also you, which is before our Lord Jesus Christ at his presence?

⁹ For what thanksgiving are we able to repay to God concerning you? Over all the joy in which we are rejoicing before our God is because of you,

¹⁶ May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and is not ashamed of my chain;

²⁰ Yes, brother, let me derive benefit from you in the Lord. Give-rest to my heart in the Lord.

⁴ I rejoice exceedingly that I have found some out of your children walking in truth, just-as we received commandment from the Father.

³ For I rejoiced exceedingly of brethren coming and testifying of your truth, just-as you are walking in truth. ⁴ I have no greater joy from these things, in order that I may hear my children are walking in the truth.
⁵ Beloved, you practice faithfully whatever you have worked toward the brethren and toward strangers; ⁶ who testified to your love in the sight of the congregation; whom you will do well, having sent onward worthily of God.

¹² Therefore having such a hope, we are using it in much boldness,

¹ Now I, Paul, myself, encourage you through the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who when face to face am indeed humble among you, but being absent am courageous toward you. ² But I am beseeching you (not when I am present) to be courageous with the confidence in which I am reasoning to dare against some who reason us as walking according to the flesh.

⁸ For even if I am boasting even-more of something concerning our authority (which the Lord gave to us for your building up and not for your demolition), I will not be shamed;

²¹ I speak according to our dishonor, as though we were weak. But in whatever anyone may be daring (I speak in foolishness), I am also daring.

⁴ and do not let obscenity, and foolish-talk or petty jesting, which are not proper, but rather thanksgiving.

² But having suffered before, and having been abused in Philippi, just-as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the good-news of God, even in our large struggle.

⁶ nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, while being able to be a burden to you as apostles of Christ.

⁹ Do not cast me off in the time of old age. Forsake me not when my strength fails.

¹⁸ Yes, even when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not, until I have declared your strength to a generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

³¹ The hoary head is a crown of glory. It will be found in the way of righteousness.

⁴ And even to old age I am he and even to hoar hairs I will carry you *. I have made and I will bear, yes, I will carry and will deliver.

¹ Therefore brethren, I am encouraging you through the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your logical divine service.

²⁰ Therefore, we are ambassadors on behalf of Christ; as though God is encouraging you through us. We are beseeching you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

¹ And working together with him, we are also encouraging you to not accept the grace of God in vain;

¹ Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow worker, ² and to the beloved Apphia and to Archippus our fellow soldier and to the congregation in your house: ³ grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
⁴ I am always giving-thanks to my God, making a remembrance of you in my prayers, ⁵ hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the holy-ones; ⁶ that the fellowship of your faith might become effective in the full knowledge of every good thing, which is in you, to Christ Jesus. ⁷ For we have much gratitude and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the holy-ones have been given-rest through you, brother.
⁸ Hence, having much boldness in Christ to command you what is proper, ⁹ yet because of love I would rather encourage you, being such a one as Paul the elderly-man and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. ¹⁰ I am encouraging you concerning my child, whom I have fathered in my bonds, Onesimus, ¹¹ who was not useful to you previously, but is useful to you now and to me whom I have sent back to you. ¹² But you, receive him, this is my heart; ¹³ whom I was planning to hold here for myself, in order that he might serve me in the bonds of the good-news on your behalf. ¹⁴ But I wished to do nothing without your viewpoint; in order that your good deed may not be according to necessity, but according to your voluntary deed. ¹⁵ For perhaps because of this, he was separated from you for a season, in order that you may have him in the everlasting world; ¹⁶ no longer as a bondservant, but beyond a bondservant, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. ¹⁷ Therefore, if you have me like a partner, receive him like myself. ¹⁸ But if he has wronged you in anything or owes you anything, charge this to my account. ¹⁹ I, Paul, write it with my own hand. I will be compensating you; in order that I may not say to you, You are even owing yourself to me. ²⁰ Yes, brother, let me derive benefit from you in the Lord. Give-rest to my heart in the Lord.
²¹ I wrote to you, having confidence in your obedience, knowing that you will be doing even beyond what I am saying. ²² But also at the same time, prepare me a lodging. For I am hoping that through your prayers I will be granted to you.
²³ Epaphras, my fellow captive in Christ Jesus, greets you; ²⁴ so do my fellow workers Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke.
²⁵ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with your spirit. Amen.

¹⁹ But I am encouraging you even-more to do this, in order that I may be restored to you shortly.

¹¹ Beloved, I am encouraging you, as foreigners and travelers, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which are warring against the soul;

¹ And David said, Is there yet any who is left of the house of Saul that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
² And there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba and they called him to David. And the king said to him, Are you Ziba? And he said, Your servant is he. ³ And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul that I may show the kindness of God to him? And Ziba said to the king, Jonathan has yet a son who is lame in his feet. ⁴ And the king said to him, Where is he? And Ziba said to the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar. ⁵ Then king David sent and fetched him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar.
⁶ And Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and bowed-down. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold, your servant! ⁷ And David said to him, Do not fear, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's sake and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father and you will eat bread at my table continually.

⁵ And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.

³⁷ Let your servant, I beseech you, turn back again, that I may die in my own city by the grave of my father and my mother. But, behold, your servant Chimham, let him go over with my lord the king and do to him what will seem good to you.
³⁸ And the king answered, Chimham will go over with me and I will do to him what will seem good to you. And whatever you will require of me, that I will do for you.

¹⁷ And one out of the crowd answered and said, Teacher, I brought my son to you, who has a mute spirit;

¹⁵ For even if you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, but you do not have many fathers, for I fathered you in Christ Jesus through the good-news.

¹⁹ My little-children, of whom I am in travail again till whenever Christ has been formed in you.

⁹ together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one from you. They will be making all things known to you which are done here.

² to Timothy, my genuine child in the faith: grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁴ To Titus, my genuine child according to our common faith: grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior.

¹ But now, those who are younger than I mock me, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
² Yes, the strength of their hands, to what should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age has perished.

³⁰ And cast out the useless bondservant into the outer darkness–the weeping and the gnashing of teeth will be there.

²⁴ Because this one, my son, was dead and then lived again, and was perishing and then was found. And they began to be joyous.

³² But we ought to be joyous and rejoice, because this one, your brother was dead, and then lived again, and was perishing and then was found.

¹⁰ So also you, whenever you have done all the things which were commanded to you, say, We are useless bondservants, because we have done what we are obligated to have done.

¹² They all shunned God. They were becoming-useless at the same time. No one is practicing kindness; no one is insofar as even one.’

¹¹ Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you; for he is useful to me for service.

¹⁰ who previously were not a people, but now are the people of God; who had not been shown-mercy, but now have been shown-mercy.

⁶ If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers,

¹¹ And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, Behold, my son, who came out from my guts, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite? Let him alone and let him curse, for Jehovah has bidden him.

²⁰ Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy upon him, says Jehovah.

¹⁴ For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also be forgiving you. ¹⁵ But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father be forgiving your trespasses.

²¹ Then Peter came near to him and said, Lord, how-often will my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Until seven-times?
²² Jesus says to him, I do not say to you, Until seven times, but, until seventy-times seven-times. ²³ Because of this, the kingdom of the heavens has been similar to a certain king who wished to settle the account with his bondservants. ²⁴ Now having begun to settle the account, one man was brought to him, a debtor of ten-thousand silver talants . ²⁵ But he did not have anything to repay him with, so his lord commanded him and his wife and children and all things, as many things as he was holding, to be sold and the money to be repaid to him.
²⁶ Therefore the bondservant falling down, was worshiping him, saying, Lord, have patience upon me, and I will be repaying all of it to you. ²⁷ But the lord of that bondservant, having compassion on him, released him and forgave him the loan.
²⁸ But that bondservant went out and found one of his fellow bondservants who owed him a hundred denarii, and he took-hold of him, and was choking him, saying, Repay if you are owing me anything.
²⁹ Therefore his fellow bondservant, falling down at his feet, was pleading with him, saying, Have patience upon me and I will be repaying you. ³⁰ But he did not wish to, but went and cast him into prison, until he should repay what is owed. ³¹ But his fellow bondservants, having seen the things which had happened, were extremely sorrowful. And they came to their own lord, and they told all the things which had happened.
³² Then his lord called him, and says to him, You evil bondservant, I forgave you all that debt, since you pleaded with me. ³³ It was essential for you to have shown-mercy also on your fellow bondservant, like I also had shown-mercy to you. ³⁴ And his lord, was angry and gave him to the torturers until he should repay everything which is owed to him. ³⁵ So my heavenly Father will also be doing to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother his trespasses from your hearts.

²⁵ And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive them; in order that your Father the one in the heavens may also forgive you your trespasses.

²⁰ And standing up, he came to his father. But while he was still distant, far from him, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell upon his neck and kissed him.

³² and become kind to one another, affectionate, forgiving others in yourselves, just-as God also forgave us in Christ.

¹⁷ Now I am rejoicing on the presence of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they fulfilled this lack of yours,

⁷ just-as it is a righteous thing for me to be mindful of this on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the good-news, all of you being joint partners with me of the grace.

³⁰ because he drew near almost as far as death, because of the work of the Christ, having disregarded his life in order that he might fill the lack in your ministry toward me.

¹ Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow worker,

¹⁷ I know also, my God, that you try the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

³ Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning you have the dew of your youth.

⁷ Does anyone ever make war while supplying his own rations? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat from its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock?

¹⁷ For if I am doing this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if I do so involuntarily, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

²⁴ Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers of your joy; for you are standing in the faith.

¹² For if the eagerness lays before you, according to whatever someone has, it is acceptable, not according to what he does not have.

⁵ Therefore I deemed it necessary to encourage the brethren, in order that they should go beforehand to you, and should prearrange the bounty you have proclaimed beforehand. This is to be ready, as a bounty and not as something from greed.

⁷ Let each man give just-as he proposes in his heart; not out of sorrow or out of necessity; for God loves a joyful giver.

⁸ Hence, having much boldness in Christ to command you what is proper, ⁹ yet because of love I would rather encourage you, being such a one as Paul the elderly-man and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

² Shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising the oversight, not by compulsion, but willfully, nor covetously, but eagerly; ³ nor like one lording it over his inheritances, but by becoming examples to the flock.

⁵ And now do not be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you* sold me here, because God sent me before you* to preserve life. ⁶ For the famine has been in the land these two years and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. ⁷ And God sent me before you* to preserve for you* a remnant on the earth and to save you* alive by a great deliverance.
⁸ So now it was not you* that sent me here, but God and he has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

²⁰ And as for you*, you* meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

¹⁰ Surely the inward thought of man will praise you, even the residue of inward thought will observe a festival to you.

⁶ And the inhabitant of this coast will say in that day, Behold, such is our trust, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?

²⁸ to do as many things as your hand and your council predetermined to happen.

⁸ But do not be called Rabbi; for only one is your leader, the Christ, and you are all brethren.

¹⁷ Now Ananias went away and entered into the house, and laying his hands upon him said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, whom was seen by you on the road on which you were coming, has sent me, that you may recover your sight and may be filled with the Holy Spirit.

²² For he who was called in the Lord, having been a bondservant, is the Lord’s freedman; likewise, the free one who was called, is Christ’s bondservant.

²⁸ Now brethren, we are children of the promise according to Isaac. ²⁹ But just-like then, he who was born according to the flesh was persecuting the one who was born according to the Spirit, so it is also now.

⁵ The bondservants, be obedient to your lords according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in clarity of your heart, as to the Christ; ⁶ not according to eye-service, like men-pleasers, but like bondservants of the Christ, practicing the will of God from your soul; ⁷ serving with benevolence to the Lord and not to men.

²² The bondservants: be obedient according to all things, those who are your lords according to the flesh; not in eye-services, like men-pleasers, but in clarity of heart, fearing God.

² But those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren, but rather let them serve them, because they are believing and beloved who are being helped by your good work. Teach and encourage these things.

¹ Hence, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus Christ, the Apostle and High-Priest of our confession;

²² Having purified your souls in the obedience to the truth through the Spirit toward non-pretended brotherly-love, intensely love^*\'b0 one another from a clean heart; ²³ having been born again, not out of corruptible seed, but from the incorruptible, through the word of God, which is living and remaining forever.

¹ Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born from God and everyone who loves the one who fathered us, also loves the one who has been born from him.

⁴⁰ He who accepts you, accepts me; and he who receives me, receives the one who sent me.

⁴⁸ But he answered and said to the one who spoke to him, Who is my mother? And who are my brethren? ⁴⁹ And he stretched out his hand toward his disciples and said, Behold, my mother and my brethren! ⁵⁰ For whoever practices the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother and sister and mother.

⁵ And whoever accepts one such child in my name, accepts me.

⁴⁰ And when the King answers, he will say to them, Assuredly I am saying to you, Inasmuch as you did it to one of these, my brethren, even the least, you did it to me.

¹⁵ Now as she and her household were immersed, she pleaded with us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, abide here, having entered into my house. And she constrained us.

²³ If anyone inquires in regard to Titus, whether our brethren, the ambassadors of the congregations (the glory of Christ)– he is my partner and my fellow worker for you.

⁶ The mystery is that the Gentiles are to be joint heirs and a joint body and joint partakers of his promise in the Christ through the good-news,

¹⁰ I am encouraging you concerning my child, whom I have fathered in my bonds, Onesimus,

¹² But you, receive him, this is my heart;

¹⁴ For we have become companions of the Christ, if indeed we hold-onto the beginning of our firmness steadfast till the end;

⁵ Listen, my beloved brethren. Did God not choose the poor of the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

¹ I am encouraging the elders the ones among you, (the fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, also the partner of the glory which is about to be revealed).

³ What we have seen and have heard, we report to you, in order that you may also have fellowship with us, but also our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ;

⁴ Surely he has borne our griefs and has carried our sorrows.
Yet we esteemed him stricken, struck by God and afflicted. ⁵ But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed.
⁶ All we like sheep have gone-astray. We have turned every one to his own way and Jehovah has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
⁷ He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter and as a sheep that is mute before its shearers, so he opened not his mouth.

¹ Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? ² If I am not an apostle to others, but yet I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

²¹ The greeting from Paul with my own hand. ²² If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. The Lord has come!

² You are our letter, having been inscribed in our hearts, being known and read by all men;

² Behold, I Paul say to you, that, if you are circumcised, Christ will be profiting you nothing.

¹¹ Behold, how-large the letters of the alphabet, I wrote to you with my own hand.

¹⁹ Brethren, if anyone among you are misled from the truth and someone should return him to it; ²⁰ let him know, that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will be saving a soul from death and will be hiding a multitude of sins.

² For if I make you sorrowful, who is it who also makes me joyous except he who is made sorrowful from me?

⁴ My boldness of speech toward you is much; my boasting on your behalf is much. I have been filled with your encouragement. I over-abound with joy in all our affliction.
⁵ For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh still had no relief, but we were being afflicted in everything; outside were quarrels, inside were fears. ⁶ But God, who encourages the humble, encouraged us at the presence of Titus; ⁷ and not only at his presence, but also at the encouragement to which he was encouraged in you, while reporting to us your longing, your anguish, your zeal on my behalf; so-that I rejoiced even more.

⁸ For God is my witness, how I am longing-for all of you in the affections of Christ Jesus.

¹ Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affections and mercies, ² fulfill my joy, in order that you may be mindful of the same thing, having the same love, fellowship in spirit, being mindful of the one thing,

¹ So-then my brethren, beloved and longed-for, my joy and crown, so stand-firm in the Lord, my beloved.

¹⁹ For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting, or is it not also you, which is before our Lord Jesus Christ at his presence? ²⁰ For you are our glory and our joy.

⁷ Brethren, because of this, we were comforted on the basis of you in all our affliction and calamity through your faith, ⁸ because now we live, if you stand-firm in the Lord. ⁹ For what thanksgiving are we able to repay to God concerning you? Over all the joy in which we are rejoicing before our God is because of you,

¹⁷ Obey and yield yourselves to your leaders; for they are watching out on behalf of your souls, as those who will be giving account; in order that they may do this thing with joy and not groaning; for this would be detrimental to you.

¹⁷ But whoever has the world’s good life and should view his brother having need and then should lock his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

⁴ I have no greater joy from these things, in order that I may hear my children are walking in the truth.

³ And I wrote this same thing to you, in order that, having come to you, I might not have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in all of you, that my joy is the joy of all of you.

¹⁶ I rejoice that in everything I have courage in you.

²² Now we have sent our brother together with them, whom we have proven many times being diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, by the large confidence which he has in you.

¹⁰ I have confidence in you in the Lord, that you will not be mindful of another person and he who is disturbing you will be bearing his judgment, whoever he is.

⁴ Now we have confidence in the Lord on the basis of you, that you are both practicing and will be practicing the things which we command you.

²³ Now having appointed him a day, they were coming to him, into the lodging in great number; to whom he was expounding the word, thoroughly testifying of the kingdom of God also persuading them with the things concerning Jesus, both from the Law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until dusk.

²⁴ Like whenever I travel through toward Spain, I will be coming to you, (for I am hoping to see you when I am traveling through and to be sent onward by you, if first I may be partially filled from you).

³⁰ Now brethren, I am encouraging you through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to struggle together with me, and on my behalf in your prayers to God; ³¹ in order that I may be rescued away from those who are disobedient in Judea and in order that my service which I have for Jerusalem might become acceptable to the holy-ones; ³² in order that I may come to you in joy through the will of God and I may rest together with you.

¹¹ You^\'b0 are also working together on our behalf by your supplication; in order that the gift to us from many faces might be a thanksgiving through many people on our behalf.

¹⁹ For I know that this will be transpiring for my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

²⁵ And having confidence of this, I know that I will remain, and I will be abiding together with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith; ²⁶ in order that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus in me, through my presence with you again.

²⁴ but I have confidence in the Lord that I myself will also be coming shortly.

²³ Do you know that our brother Timothy has been released? With whom, I will be seeing you if he comes shortly.

¹⁶ Therefore confess your trespasses to one another, and pray on behalf of one another, that you may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man prevails; much in its working.

¹² Having many things to write to you, I did not plan to write them through paper and ink, but I am hoping to come to you and to speak mouth to mouth, in order that our joy may be fulfilled.

¹⁴ But I hope to see you immediately and we will be speaking mouth to mouth

⁷ Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives and my fellow captives, who are notable even among the apostles, who has also happened to be in Christ before me.

⁷ just-as you also learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow bondservant, who is a faithful servant of the Christ on your behalf,

¹⁰ Aristarchus my fellow captive greets you, and Mark, the cousin to Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments; if he comes to you, accept him),

¹² Epaphras, a bondservant of Christ, the one from you, greets you. He is always fighting on your behalf in his prayers, in order that you might stand complete and having been fulfilled in all the will of God.

¹² And being conscious of it, he came upon the house of Mary the mother of John whose surname was Mark, where a considerable number was accumulating together and were praying.

²⁵ Now Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem, having fulfilled the service and having taken together with them also John, who was surnamed Mark.

¹³ Now Paul, with those around him, having set-sail from Paphos, came to Perga in Pamphylia, and John having departed from them, returned to Jerusalem.

³⁷ Now Barnabas also planned to take together with them John, the one called Mark. ³⁸ But Paul was not deeming it worthy to take Mark together with them, the one who withdrew away from them from Pamphylia and did not go together with them to the work. ³⁹ Therefore it happened: a sharp-disagreement, so-that they departed from one another, and Barnabas took Mark with him to sail away to Cyprus;

²⁹ And the whole city was filled with confusion and they rushed united into the theater, having seized Paul’s fellow traveling-associates, Gaius and Aristarchus, who were Macedonians.

² Now having stepped on board, in a Adramyttium ship, which is about to sail throughout the places along Asia, we set-sail, also being together with us was Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica.

¹⁴ Luke, the beloved physician and Demas greet you.

¹⁰ for Demas forsook me and traveled to Thessalonica, having loved this current age; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. ¹¹ Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you; for he is useful to me for service.

¹ Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow worker, ² and to the beloved Apphia and to Archippus our fellow soldier and to the congregation in your house:

⁸ Therefore we ought to receive those who are such, in order that we should become fellow workers for the truth.

²⁰ Now the God of peace will crush the Adversary under your feet shortly.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is among you.

²³ Gaius greets you, my host and of the whole congregation. Erastus the steward of the city greets you and Quartus the brother.

¹⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with your spirit, brethren. Amen.

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²² The Lord Jesus Christ, is with your spirit. Grace is with you. Amen.

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