King James Version (KJV)

Philemon 1:11

“Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:”

Verse in context — Philemon 1

Yet for love's sake I rather beseech [thee], being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:

Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:

Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

A personal appeal for forgiveness and reconciliation.