I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel,
It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.
For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—
I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have made up for your absence,
Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
for he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was lacking in your service to me.
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
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