3 Good will and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ are yours!
4 ⌊Philemon,⌋ I always thank my God when I mention you in my prayers because
5 I hear about your faithfulness to the Lord Jesus and your love for all of God’s people.
6 As you share the faith you have in common with others, I pray that you may come to have a complete knowledge of every blessing we have in Christ.
7 Your love ⌊for God’s people⌋ gives me a lot of joy and encouragement. You, brother, have comforted God’s people.
8 Christ makes me bold enough to order you to do the right thing.
9 However, I would prefer to make an appeal on the basis of love. I, Paul, as an old man and now a prisoner for Christ Jesus,