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Onesimus and Paul
How Onesimus and Paul are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Paul mentored Onesimus.
Onesimus came to faith through Paul while Paul was in bonds. Paul called him "my son Onesimus" and sent him back to his master as a brother.
I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds
Philemon 1:10, King James Version
Whom I have sent again
Philemon 1:12, King James Version
above a servant, a brother beloved
Philemon 1:16, King James Version
Where they cross: Philemon 1:9-12
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Philemon 1:9-12
9Yet for love’s sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
10I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
11Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
12Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
Philemon 1:16
16Not 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?
King James Version