Philémon 1.17
English standard version

Salutation et louange

¹ Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,
To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
² and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
³ Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
⁴ I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
⁵ because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints,
⁶ and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.
⁷ For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.

Demande de Paul

⁸ Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
⁹ yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you&emdash;I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus&emdash;
¹⁰ I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I became in my imprisonment.
¹¹ (Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
¹² I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
¹³ 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,
¹⁴ but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own accord.
¹⁵ For this perhaps is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back forever,
¹⁶ no longer as a bondservant but more than a bondservant, as a beloved brother&emdash;especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
¹⁷ So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
¹⁸ If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
¹⁹ I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it&emdash;to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
²⁰ Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
²¹ Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
²² At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping that through your prayers I will be graciously given to you.

Salutations

²³ Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
²⁴ and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
²⁵ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.