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For I had much joy and comfort in thy love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

yet for love's sake I rather beseech, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus:

I beseech thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,

For perhaps he was therefore parted from thee for a season, that thou shouldest have him for ever;

But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I hope that through your prayers I shall be granted unto you.

For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, This day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be to him a Father, And he shall be to me a Son?

but of the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; And the sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to do service for the sake of them that shall inherit salvation?

For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;

For not unto angels did he subject the world to come, whereof we speak.

Thou didst put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he subjected all things unto him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we see not yet all things subjected to him.

But we behold him who hath been made a little lower than the angels, even Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honour, that by the grace of God he should taste death for every man.

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

For both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

For verily not of angels doth he take hold, but he taketh hold of the seed of Abraham.

Wherefore it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath more honour than the house.

For every house is builded by some one; but he that built all things is God.

And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken;