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5 articles found for “Onesimus”

• Philemon and Onesimus

  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.

• Epistle to Philemon

  The Epistle to Philemon is the eighteenth book of the New Testament, a short letter of one chapter and twenty-five verses in which the apostle Paul, writing from prison, asks Philemon to receive his slave Onesimus as a brother.

• Colossae

  Colossae was a city in the region of Phrygia in Asia Minor, in what is today southwestern Türkiye. Paul sent the Epistle to the Colossians to the church there, and Philemon and Onesimus are also regarded as associated with this church.

• Philemon 1

  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.

• Colossians 4

  Colossians 4 is the final chapter of the Epistle to the Colossians. It completes the household code of chapter 3 with instructions to masters and closes the letter with exhortations on prayer and speech, the sending of Tychicus and Onesimus, greetings from Paul's fellow workers, and Paul's greeting in his own hand.