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Words by God/Music by Doug Schroeder
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April 24, 2025
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MP3 8.2 MB • 192 kbps • 5:57
Story behind the song
This song was composed on 4/23/2025. Perhaps its cherry picking, because its only one chapter, but its the 27th book of the Bible for which I have composed music. For the New Testament, I only have seven books left to put into music. If God gives me the grace, I will complete that before I die. I already asked Him to let me live until I had composed 200 songs, and now I am ten away from 1,000. God is good.
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1Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved friend and fellow laborer,
2to the belovedApphia, Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house:
3Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4I thank my God, making mention of you always in my prayers,
5hearing of your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints,
6that the sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in youin Christ Jesus.
7For we havegreat joyand consolation in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.
8Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you what is fitting,
9yet for love's sake I rather appeal to you--being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ--
10I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten while in my chains,
11who once was unprofitable to you, but now is profitable to you and to me.
12I am sending him back.You therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
13whom I wished to keep with me, that on your behalf he might minister to me in my chains for the gospel.
14But without your consent I wanted to do nothing, that your good deed might not be by compulsion, as it were, but voluntary.
15For perhaps he departed for a while for this purpose, that you might receive him forever,
16no longer as a slave but more than a slave--a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
17If then you count me as a partner, receive him as you would me.
18But if he has wronged you or owes anything, put that on my account.
19I, Paul, am writing with my own hand. I will repay--not to mention to you that you owe me even your own self besides.
20Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in the Lord.
21Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
22But, meanwhile, also prepare a guest room for me, for I trust that through your prayers I shall be granted to you.
23Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,
24as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow laborers.
25The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
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