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Epistle to Philemon
The Epistle to Philemon is the eighteenth book of the New Testament. In this short letter of one chapter and twenty-five verses, the apostle Paul, writing from prison, asks Philemon to receive his slave Onesimus as a brother.
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- Philemon 1Bible
Philemon 1 is the entire Epistle to Philemon, a book of a single chapter. It is a short letter in which the imprisoned Paul asks Philemon to receive Onesimus not as a servant but as a beloved brother.
- Philemon and OnesimusPeople
Philemon, the recipient of Paul's Epistle to Philemon, was a Christian in whose house a church met. Onesimus, his slave, became a Christian through Paul.
- ApphiaPeople
Apphia was a Christian woman of the early church who is named as a "sister" in the greeting of Paul's Epistle to Philemon (Philemon 1:2). This is her only appearance in the Bible.
- ArchippusPeople
Archippus was an early Christian worker named in the New Testament letters to the Colossians and to Philemon. Paul called him a "fellowsoldier" and urged him to fulfill "the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord."
- PhilippiansBible
Philippians is the eleventh book of the New Testament, a letter the apostle Paul wrote while imprisoned to the church at Philippi in Macedonia. It has four chapters, and because its exhortation to "rejoice" recurs throughout, it is also called the "Epistle of Joy."
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