These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Philemon 1
Brit Hadashah 25 verses
- 1 , a prisoner for , and Timothy our brother: To Philemon our dearly-loved fellow labourer—
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and to our sister Apphia and our comrade Archippus—as well as to the Church in your house.
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May be granted to you all, and , from our Father and the Lord the .
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I give continual thanks to my while making mention of you, my brother, in my prayers,
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- 5 because I of your and of the which you have towards the Lord and which you manifest towards all Elohim’s people;
- 6 praying as I do, that their participation in your may result in others fully recognizing all the right affection that is in us toward .
- 7 For I have found great joy and comfort in your , because the hearts of Elohim’s people have been, and are, refreshed through you, my brother.
- 8 Therefore, though I might with Messiah’s authority speak very freely and order you to do what is fitting,
- 9 it is for love’s sake that—instead of that—although I am none other than the aged, and am now also a prisoner for ,
- 10 I entreat you on behalf of my own child whose father I have become while in my chains—I mean Onesimus.
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Formerly he was useless to you, but now—true to his —he is of great use to you and to me.
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I am sending him back to you, though in so doing I send part of myself.
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It was my wish to keep him at my side for him to attend to my wants, as your representative, during my imprisonment for the Good News.
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- 14 Only I wished to do nothing without your consent, so that his kind action of yours might not be done under pressure, but might be a voluntary one.
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For perhaps it was for this reason he was parted from you for a time, that you might receive him back wholly and for ever yours;
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- 16 no longer as a slave, but as something better than a slave—a brother peculiarly dear to me, and even dearer to you, both as a and as a fellow Messiahian.
- 17 If therefore you regard me as a comrade, receive him as if he were I myself.
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And if he was ever dishonest or is in your debt, debit me with the amount.
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- 19 I write this with my own hand—I will pay you in full. (I say nothing of the fact that you owe me even your own self.)
- 20 Yes, brother, do me this favour for the Lord’s sake. Refresh my in .
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I write to you in the full confidence that you will meet my wishes, for I you will do even more than I say.
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- 22 And at the same time provide accommodation for me; for I that through your prayers I shall be permitted to come to you.
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Greetings to you, my brother, from Epaphras my fellow prisoner for the sake of ;
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- 24 and from Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
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May the of our Lord the be with the of every one of you.
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