Study Desk

But when the kindness and love for mankind of God our Deliverer was revealed,

When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you. Do your best to come to me in Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

Do your best to help Zenas the Torah expert and Apollos with their arrangements for travelling, so that they will lack nothing.

From: Sha'ul, a prisoner for the sake of the Messiah Yeshua, and brother Timothy To: Our dear fellow-worker Philemon,

for I am hearing about your love and commitment to the Lord Yeshua and to all God's people.

For your love has given me much joy and encouragement. Brother, you have refreshed the hearts of God's people.

But since I Sha'ul, am the kind of person I am, an old man and now for the Messiah Yeshua's sake a prisoner besides, I prefer to appeal to you on the basis of love.

I would dearly have loved to keep him with me, in order for him to serve me in your place while I am in prison because of the Good News.

But I didn't want to do anything without your consent, so that the good you do for me may be voluntary and not forced.

Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a brief period was so that you could have him back forever,

One more thing: please get a room ready for me. For I hope that through the prayers of you all God will give me a chance to visit you.

Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner for the sake of the Messiah Yeshua, sends greetings to you,

This Son is the radiance of the Sh'khinah, the very expression of God's essence, upholding all that exists by his powerful word; and after he had, through himself, made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of HaG'dulah BaM'romim.

For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my Son; today I have become your Father"? Also, God never said of any angel, "I will be his Father, and he will be my Son."

Moreover, to which of the angels has he ever said, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet"?

For if the word God spoke through angels became binding, so that every violation and act of disobedience received its just deserts in full measure,

For it was not to angels that God subjected the ‘olam haba — which is what we are talking about.

But we do see Yeshua — who indeed was made for a little while lower than the angels — now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by God's grace he might taste death for all humanity.

For in bringing many sons to glory, it was only fitting that God, the Creator and Preserver of everything, should bring the Initiator of their deliverance to the goal through sufferings.

For both Yeshua, who sets people apart for God, and the ones being set apart have a common origin — this is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers