{
  "translation": {
    "id": "weu",
    "name": "World English Bible with Deuterocanon (Catholic)"
  },
  "book": {
    "id": "PHM",
    "name": "Philemon",
    "chapterCount": 1
  },
  "chapters": [
    {
      "chapter": 1,
      "verses": [
        {
          "n": 1,
          "t": "Paul, a prisoner of Christ[object Object]Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,"
        },
        {
          "n": 2,
          "t": "to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:"
        },
        {
          "n": 3,
          "t": "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."
        },
        {
          "n": 4,
          "t": "I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,"
        },
        {
          "n": 5,
          "t": "hearing of your love and of the faith which you have towards the Lord Jesus and towards all the saints,"
        },
        {
          "n": 6,
          "t": "that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus."
        },
        {
          "n": 7,
          "t": "For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother."
        },
        {
          "n": 8,
          "t": "Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,"
        },
        {
          "n": 9,
          "t": "yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ."
        },
        {
          "n": 10,
          "t": "I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have become the father of in my chains,[object Object]"
        },
        {
          "n": 11,
          "t": "who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me."
        },
        {
          "n": 12,
          "t": "I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,"
        },
        {
          "n": 13,
          "t": "whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News."
        },
        {
          "n": 14,
          "t": "But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will."
        },
        {
          "n": 15,
          "t": "For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while that you would have him forever,"
        },
        {
          "n": 16,
          "t": "no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord."
        },
        {
          "n": 17,
          "t": "If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me."
        },
        {
          "n": 18,
          "t": "But if he has wronged you at all or owes you anything, put that to my account."
        },
        {
          "n": 19,
          "t": "I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides)."
        },
        {
          "n": 20,
          "t": "Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord."
        },
        {
          "n": 21,
          "t": "Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say."
        },
        {
          "n": 22,
          "t": "Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you."
        },
        {
          "n": 23,
          "t": "Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,"
        },
        {
          "n": 24,
          "t": "as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers."
        },
        {
          "n": 25,
          "t": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "exportedAt": "2026-09-06T16:29:55.478Z",
  "source": "https://quillin.org"
}