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11 Onesimus[a] hasn’t been of much use to you in the past, but now he is very useful to both of us.

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  1. 11 Onesimus means “useful.”

11 Only Luke is with me. Bring Mark with you when you come, for he will be helpful to me in my ministry.

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Job Speaks of His Anguish

30 “But now I am mocked by people younger than I,
    by young men whose fathers are not worthy to run with my sheepdogs.
A lot of good they are to me—
    those worn-out wretches!

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10 “Once you had no identity as a people;
    now you are God’s people.
Once you received no mercy;
    now you have received God’s mercy.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2:10 Hos 1:6, 9; 2:23.

32 We had to celebrate this happy day. For your brother was dead and has come back to life! He was lost, but now he is found!’”

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12 All have turned away;
    all have become useless.
No one does good,
    not a single one.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:10-12 Pss 14:1-3; 53:1-3 (Greek version).

10 In the same way, when you obey me you should say, ‘We are unworthy servants who have simply done our duty.’”

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30 Now throw this useless servant into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

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24 for this son of mine was dead and has now returned to life. He was lost, but now he is found.’ So the party began.

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