Philemon 1:9-20

1. 9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

2. 10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

3. 11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:

4. 12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:

5. 13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

6. 14 But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

7. 15 For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;

8. 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?

9. 17 If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.

10. 18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;

11. 19 I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.

12. 20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.

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