Colossians 4:9

Douay-Rheims Bible

With Onesimus, a most beloved and faithful brother, who is one of you. All things that are done here, they shall make known to you.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He is coming with Onesimus, a faithful and dearly loved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you about everything here.

King James Version (1611)
With Onesimus a faithfull and beloued brother, who is one of you. They shall make knowen vnto you all things which are done here.

King James Version
With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.

English Standard Version
and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.

New American Standard Bible
and with him is Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of your own. They will inform you about the whole situation here.

New Century Version
I send him with Onesimus, a faithful and dear brother in Christ, and one of your group. They will tell you all that has happened here.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of your number. They will inform you about the whole situation here.

Legacy Standard Bible
and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will inform you about the whole situation here.

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

Contemporary English Version
Onesimus, that dear and faithful follower from your own group, is coming with him. The two of them will tell you everything that has happened here.

Complete Jewish Bible
I have sent him with Onesimus, the dear and faithful brother, who is one of you; they will tell you everything that has happened here.

Darby Translation
with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is [one] of you. They shall make known to you everything here.

Easy-to-Read Version
I am sending him with Onesimus, the faithful and dear brother from your group. They will tell you everything that has happened here.

Geneva Bible (1587)
With Onesimus a faithfull and a beloued brother, who is one of you. They shall shew you of all things here.

George Lamsa Translation
Together with O-nes''i-mus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known to you all the things which have happened to us.

Good News Translation
With him goes Onesimus, that dear and faithful friend, who belongs to your group. They will tell you everything that is happening here.

Lexham English Bible
together with Onesimus, my faithful and dear brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you all the circumstances here.

Literal Translation
with Onesimus the faithful and beloved brother, who is of you. They will make known to you all the things here.

Amplified Bible
and with him is Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will let you know everything about the situation here [in Rome].

American Standard Version
together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things that are done here.

Bible in Basic English
And with him I have sent Onesimus, the true and well-loved brother, who is one of you. They will give you word of everything which is taking place here.

Hebrew Names Version
together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you all things that are going on here.

International Standard Version
He is coming with Onesimus, that faithful and dear brother, who is one of you. They will tell you everything that is happening here.

Etheridge Translation
with Onesimos, the faithful and beloved brother who is of you. These will make you know what concerneth us.

Murdock Translation
together with Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is from among you. These will make known to you what is [fn] with us.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
With Onesimus a faythfull and beloued brother, which is of you. They shall shewe you of all thynges which [are] here.

English Revised Version
together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things that are done here.

World English Bible
together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you all things that are going on here.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you: they will make known to you all things that are done here.

Weymouth's New Testament
And with him I send our dear and trusty brother Onesimus, who is one of yourselves. They will inform you of everything here.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
most dere and feithful brother, which is of you; whiche schulen make alle thingis that ben doon here, knowun to you.

Update Bible Version
together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known to you all things that [are done] here.

Webster's Bible Translation
With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is [one] of you. They will make known to you all things which [are done] here.

New English Translation
I sent him with Onesimus, the faithful and dear brother, who is one of you. They will tell you about everything here.

New King James Version
with Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you all things which are happening here.

New Living Translation
I am also sending Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, one of your own people. He and Tychicus will tell you everything that's happening here.

New Life Bible
Onesimus is going with Tychicus. He is one of your own people. He is faithful and we love him very much. They will tell you about everything here.

New Revised Standard
he is coming with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you about everything here.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is from among you: - all things, unto you, will they make known, that are taking place here.

Revised Standard Version
and with him Ones'imus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of yourselves. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
wt one Onesimus a faythfull and a beloved brother which is one of you. They shall shewe you of all thinges which are adoynge here.

Young's Literal Translation
with Onesimus the faithful and beloved brother, who is of you; all things to you shall they make known that [are] here.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
with one Onesimus a faithfull and beloued brother, which is one of you: they shal shewe you of all thinges, which are adoynge here

Mace New Testament (1729)
I have sent him with Onesimus a faithful and beloved brother, who is of your city: they will inform you of what passes here.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Onesimus in going to be riding with him. He's also a top hand and one of y'all. They're going to tell y'all everything.

Contextual Overview

⁷ All the things that concern me, Tychicus, our dearest brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord, will make known to you. ⁸ What I have sent to you for this same purpose, that he may know the things that concern you and comfort your hearts: ⁹ With Onesimus, a most beloved and faithful brother, who is one of you. All things that are done here, they shall make known to you. ¹⁰ Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, saluteth you: and Mark, the cousin german of Barnabas, touching whom you have received commandments. If he come unto you, receive him. ¹¹ And Jesus that is called Justus: who are of the circumcision. These only are my helpers, in the kingdom of God: who have been a comfort to me. ¹² Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, who is always solicitous for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and full in all the will of God. ¹³ For I bear him testimony that he hath much labour for you and for them that are at Laodicea and them at Hierapolis. ¹⁴ Luke, the most dear physician, saluteth you: and Demas. ¹⁵ Salute the brethren who are at Laodicea: and Nymphas and the church that is in his house. ¹⁶ And when this epistle shall have been read with you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans: and that you read that which is of the Laodiceans.

Bible Verse Review
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Onesimus: Colossians 4:7, Philemon 1:10-19

Reciprocal: Acts 15:25 - our 1 Corinthians 4:17 - faithful Ephesians 6:21 - beloved Philippians 2:19 - to send 1 Thessalonians 3:2 - our brother 1 Peter 5:12 - a faithful

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
Abel also offered of the firstlings of his flock, and of their fat: and the Lord had respect to Abel, and to his offerings.

Genesis 4:9
And the Lord said to Cain: Where is thy brother Abel? And he answered: I know not: am I my brother’s keeper?

Genesis 4:11
Now therefore cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath opened her mouth and received the blood of thy brother at thy hand.

Genesis 4:13
And Cain said to the Lord: My iniquity is greater than that I may deserve pardon.

Genesis 4:14
Behold thou dost cast me out this day from the face of the earth, and from thy face I shall be hid, and I shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth: every one therefore that findeth me, shall kill me.

Genesis 37:32
Sending some to carry it to their father, and to say: This we have found: see whether it be thy son’s coat, or not.

Psalms 9:12
(9-13) For requiring their blood, he hath remembered them: he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.

Proverbs 28:13
He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper: but he that shall confess, and forsake them, shall obtain mercy.

John 8:44
You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

With Onesimus,.... Who had been Philemon's servant, ran away from him, and was met with and converted by the Apostle Paul, of whom he says many things in his epistle to his master. According to the Apostolic Constitutions, he was afterwards bishop of Beyrhoea; and some say he suffered martyrdom under Domitian; a servant of this name is mentioned by Suetonius i, Ignatius k speaks of one Onesimus as bishop of Ephesus, but not the same with this,

a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you; either one of their ministers, as Epaphras was, Colossians 3:12 or one of their city, who was originally a native of that place; and which the apostle mentions, the more to recommend him; though this is the least part of his commendation; he calls him a "brother", being both a converted man, and in the ministry; and being faithful in his work to Christ, and greatly beloved, by the saints; and particularly highly in the esteem and affections of the apostle:

they shall make known unto you all things which are done here; at Rome, either to him in prison, or in the church; and being two of them, were a proper number to bear a testimony, and which ought to be received.

i ln Vit. Galbae, c. 13. k Ep. ad Ephes. p. 17. & ad Antioch. ascript. p. 89.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

With Onesimus - Who had been formerly a servant of Philemon, an inhabitant of Colossae; see the notes at Philemon 1:10. Onesimus had probably been recently converted; and Paul felt toward him the warm attachment of a brother; Philemon 1:16. In what way he became acquainted with him is unknown. A more full account of him will be found in the notes at the Epistle to Philemon.

Who is one of you - That is, either who is from your city, or one of your own people and nation. It is clear from this, that Onesimus was from Phrygia, and probably from the city of Colossae itself. It would seem also that he was of a higher rank than is designated by the word “slave” now. He was, indeed, a “servant” δοῦλος doulos - of Philemon, but would the apostle have addressed the Colossians, and said that he was “one of them,” if he had occupied precisely the condition which is now denoted by the word “slave”? Would a minister of the gospel now in the Northern States, who should send a letter by a run-away slave to a community of masters at the South, say of him that he was “one of them?” Would it be kindly received, or produce a good impression, if he did? There is reason, therefore, to think that Onesimus was not a slave in the proper sense, but that he might have been a respectable youth, who had bound himself to service for a term of years; compare Philemon 1:18.

They shall make known to you all things which are done here - Relating to Paul himself and the state of the church in Rome. As the Epistle which Paul sent was designed not only for them, but to be a part of the volume of revealed truth, he wrote only those things which would be of permanent interest. Other matters he left for those who carried the Epistle to communicate. It would also serve to give Tychicus and Onesimus more respectability in view of the church at Colossae, if he referred the church to them for information on important points.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 9. With Onesimus - who is one of you. — Onesimus was a native of some part of Phrygia, if not of Colosse itself; and being lately converted to the Christian faith by the instrumentality of the apostle, he would be able, on this account, to give them satisfactory information concerning the apostle's state, which would be doubly acceptable to them as he was their countryman. See the Epistle to Philemon.

All things which are done here.] FG, the Vulgate, Itala, Jerome, and Bede, add here πραττομενα, what is done, which we have supplied in Italics in our translation. These brethren could give an account of the transactions at Rome, relative to the apostle and Christianity, which it might not be prudent for him to commit to writing. Colossians 4:7. The reign of Nero was not only cruel, but suspicious, jealous, and dangerous.