Philemon 1:10-16

1. 10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

2. 11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:

3. 12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:

4. 13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

5. 14 But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

6. 15 For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;

7. 16 Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?

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