1. Paul, a prisoner of Messiah Yeshua, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow worker.
2. To Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the community that meets in your house:
3. Grace to you and shalom from God our Father and the Lord Messiah Yeshua!
4. I thank my God always when mentioning you in my prayers,
5. hearing of your love and the trust you have toward the Lord Yeshua and all the kedoshim.
6. May the fellowship of your faith become effective, with the recognition of all the good that is ours in Messiah.
7. For I’ve received much joy and comfort in your love, brother, because the hearts of the kedoshim have been refreshed through you.
8. Therefore, though I have plenty of boldness in Messiah to order you to do what’s right,
9. yet for love’s sake I appeal to you instead. I, Paul, am an old man and now also a prisoner belonging to Messiah Yeshua.
10. I beg you for my child Onesimus—for whom I became a spiritual father while in chains.
11. He once was useless to you, but now is useful both to you and me.
12. I sent him back to you—he is my very heart.
13. I really wanted to keep him with me, so that on your behalf he might serve me while I am in chains for the Good News.