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Philemon 1:10
“I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,”
Verse in context — Philemon 1
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Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,
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yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
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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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