¹问安为基督耶稣被囚禁的保罗，和提摩太弟兄，写信给我们所爱的，又一同作工的腓利门，

¹Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,

²和亚腓亚姊妹，并我们的战友亚基布，以及在你家里的教会。

²to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus, our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:

³愿恩惠平安从我们的父　神和主耶稣基督临到你们。

³Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴称赞腓利门我听见你对主耶稣和众圣徒有爱心和信心，我每逢祷告提到你的时候，就常常感谢我的　神。

⁴I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,

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⁵hearing of your love, and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;

⁶愿你与众人分享你的信心的时候，会产生功效，使我们可以知道在我们中间的一切善事，都是为基督作的。

⁶that the fellowship of your faith may become effective, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

⁷弟兄啊，众圣徒的心既然从你得到舒畅，我也因你的爱心，得到更大的喜乐和安慰。

⁷For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

⁸为欧尼西慕请求我在基督里虽然可以放胆吩咐你作应作的事，

⁸Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

⁹然而像我这上了年纪的保罗，现在又是为基督耶稣被囚禁的，宁愿凭着爱心请求你，

⁹yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

¹⁰就是为我在囚禁时所生的儿子欧尼西慕求你；

¹⁰I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus, Onesimus means “useful.”

¹¹他从前对你没有什么好处，但现在对你我都有好处。

¹¹who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.

¹²我现在打发他亲自回到你那里去；他是我所心爱的。

¹²I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

¹³我本来想把他留在我这里，使他在我为福音被囚禁时，可以替你服事我。

¹³whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

¹⁴但还没有得到你的同意，我就不愿意这样作，好叫你的善行不是出于勉强，而是出于甘心。

¹⁴But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

¹⁵也许他暂时离开你，正是为了使你永远得着他，

¹⁵For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever,

¹⁶不再是奴仆，而是高过奴仆，是亲爱的弟兄。对我固然是这样，对你来说，不论按肉身或在主内的关系，更是这样。

¹⁶no 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.

¹⁷所以，你要是把我看作同伴，就接纳他好像接纳我一样。

¹⁷If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.

¹⁸如果他使你受了损失，或欠你什么，都记在我的帐上。

¹⁸But if he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, put that to my account.

¹⁹“我必偿还”，这是我保罗亲手写的。用不着我说，甚至你的生命，你也是欠我的。

¹⁹I, 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).

²⁰所以弟兄啊！让我在主里得到你的帮助，使我的心在基督里得着畅快。

²⁰Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.

²¹我深信你会听从，也知道你所作的必超过我所说的，因此才写信给你。

²¹Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.

²²同时，还请你为我预备住的地方，因为我盼望借着你们的祷告，可以获得释放到你们那里去。

²²Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.

²³问候的话为基督耶稣的缘故和我一同坐监的以巴弗，

²³Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,

²⁴以及我的同工马可、亚里达古、底马、路加都问候你。

²⁴as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.

²⁵愿主耶稣基督的恩惠常与你们同在。（“与你们同在”原文作“与你们的心灵同在”；好些抄本在这书末有“阿们”一词。）

²⁵The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.