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18The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
²Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
³Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
⁴And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
⁵Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
⁶O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
⁷At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
⁸If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
⁹And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
¹⁰If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
¹¹Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

1Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,
²And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house:
³Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
⁴I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,
⁵Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;
⁶That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
⁷For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
⁸Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,
⁹Yet for love’s sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
¹⁰I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
¹¹Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
¹²Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
¹³Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
¹⁴But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
¹⁵For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;
¹⁶Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
¹⁷If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
¹⁸If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;
¹⁹I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
²⁰Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.
²¹Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.