Chapter 1
1 I have received in God your much-beloved name, which you possess by a righteous nature according to faith and love in Christ Jesus our Saviour. Being imitators of God, you have rekindled through the blood of God the work of your kinship and brought it to perfect completion.
2 When you heard that I was bound from Syria for the sake of the common name and hope, hoping through your prayer to succeed in fighting wild beasts in Rome, so that by succeeding I might be a disciple, you made haste to see me.
3 Since I have received your great multitude in the name of God in Onesimus, your bishop, who is indescribable in love, I pray that you love him according to Jesus Christ and that you all be in harmony with him. Blessed is he who granted you to possess such a worthy bishop.[1]