Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—
yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need,
For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.
Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God,
and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith,
and Jesus who is called Justus. These are the only men of the circumcision among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.
Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.
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