The Book of
Philemon
A personal appeal that the gospel reshapes household power into family-like belonging and costly reconciliation.
Read
Start here, then choose a chapter.
Read it as a real-life case study of Christian ethics in a household setting. Track Paul’s tone, his reasons for the request, and how he connects faith to concrete decisions about welcome, restitution, and changed status.
Chapters
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Pick a chapter. Each chapter keeps the text, sections, questions, and context together.
Context
Big idea and book facts
Paul urges a believing household leader to receive a returning slave as a brother in Christ, showing how the gospel remakes relationships and calls for practical, costly reconciliation.
- Author
- Paul the Apostle
- Date
- c. AD 62
- Location
- Rome
- Audience
- Philemon, Apphia, Archippus, and the church in Philemon's house
- Genre
- Epistle