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- Choose a book and chapter using the picker at the top.
- Read the Berean Standard Bible text in the main column.
- Hover a verse number in the passage to open a manuscript list and timeline.
- Click a verse number or use “Full verse page” for GA lookup, commentary, Greek tools, and (on ECM books) textual apparatus.
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This book
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Two manuscript lists
- Book catalog
- Manuscripts whose surviving text includes this book (from the Kurzgefaßte Liste catalog). The same list appears at every verse — it is not verse-specific attestation.
- ECM
- The Editio Critica Maior (ECM) is the scholarly critical edition of the Greek New Testament. Its apparatus records which manuscripts attest each textual variant at a specific verse.
Sources
English text: Berean Standard Bible (helloao API). NT manuscript catalog and apparatus: Münster NTVMR. Extrabiblical catalog: scholarly inventories with bundled JSON + Firestore. Pre-indexed lists enable fast hover; apparatus XML is fetched live on ECM verse pages.
Philemon 1The chapter view is for reading and quick manuscript discovery. Hover verse superscripts for a preview; open the verse page for full lists, timelines, and analysis tools.
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1Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker,2to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church that meets at your house:3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.4I always thank my God, remembering you in my prayers,5because I hear about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints.6I pray that your partnership in the faith may become effective as you fully acknowledge every good thing that is ours in Christ.7I take great joy and encouragement in your love, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints.8So although in Christ I am bold enough to order you to do what is proper,9I prefer to appeal on the basis of love. For I, Paul, am now aged, and a prisoner of Christ Jesus as well.10I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I became while I was in chains.11Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.12I am sending back to you him who is my very heart.13I would have liked to keep him with me, so that on your behalf he could minister to me in my chains for the gospel.14But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness will not be out of compulsion, but by your own free will.15For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a while, so that you might have him back for good—16no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a beloved brother. He is especially beloved to me, but even more so to you, both in person and in the Lord.17So if you consider me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.18But if he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge it to my account.19I, Paul, write this with my own hand. I will repay it—not to mention that you owe me your very self.20Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.21Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.22In the meantime, prepare a guest room for me, because I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.23Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you greetings,24as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.25The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.