The King James Version Bible

Philemon 1:15

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

Cross References

  1. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
  2. But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
  3. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
  4. And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
  5. For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.