Quotes about Onesimus

Paul is not only urging and requesting but actually embodying what he elsewhere calls 'the ministry of reconciliation'. God was in the Messiah, reconciling the world to himself, he says in 2 Corinthians 5.19; now, we dare to say, God was in Paul reconciling Onesimus and Philemon.

With him I am sending Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you about everything here.

I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I became while I was in chains.