Quotes from Philemon

7 notable lines from Paul · c. 60

Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?

Paul on the runaway slave Onesimus, Philemon 1:16 (KJV)

Quotations follow the King James Version translation (Oxford University Press, 1611) — our recommended edition.

  1. I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.

    Paul, Philemon 1:19 (KJV)

  2. If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;

    Paul, Philemon 1:18 (KJV)

  3. Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

    Paul, Philemon 1:9 (KJV)

  4. If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.

    Paul, Philemon 1:17 (KJV)

  5. I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

    Paul, Philemon 1:10 (KJV)

  6. Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:

    Paul on Onesimus, Philemon 1:11 (KJV)