World English Bible

Philemon 1:11

“who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.”

Verse in context — Philemon 1

yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,

who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.

I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

A personal appeal for forgiveness and reconciliation.