World English Bible
Philemon 1:12
“I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,”
Verse in context — Philemon 1
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I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,
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who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.
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I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
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whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.
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But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.
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