and to our sister Apphia and our comrade Archippus--as well as to the Church in your house.

praying as I do, that their participation in your faith may result in others fully recognizing all the right affection that is in us toward Christ.

It was my wish to keep him at my side for him to attend to my wants, as your representative, during my imprisonment for the Good News.

no longer as a slave, but as something better than a slave--a brother peculiarly dear to me, and even dearer to you, both as a servant and as a fellow Christian.

If therefore you regard me as a comrade, receive him as if he were I myself.