because I hear of your love and of your faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints (God’s people).

I appeal to you on behalf of my son, Onesimus, whom I [spiritually] conceived while [here] in prison.

I really wanted to keep him [here] with me so that, on your behalf, he could minister to me while in prison for the sake of the Gospel.

for perhaps because of this he did depart for an hour, that age-duringly thou mayest have him,

Greetings to you from Epaphras, my fellow prisoner here in [the cause of] Christ Jesus,

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits, Amen. {Here ends the Epistle of Saint Paul the Apostle unto Philemon, Sent from Rome by Onesimus, a servant.}