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Paul links Onesimus’s reception to Paul’s own standing with Philemon: “If you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.” The statement makes Onesimus’s welcome part of Paul’s appeal and partnership language (Philemon 1:17).
17If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.