Philemon 1:12

New Testament Epistle (Pauline) ASV (1901)

whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that is, my very heart:

Philemon 1:12 — American Standard Version

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Context — Philemon 1

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9yet for love`s sake I rather beseech, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus:

10I beseech thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,

11who once was unprofitable to thee, but now is profitable to thee and to me:

12whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that is, my very heart:

13whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

14but without thy mind I would do nothing; that thy goodness should not be as of necessity, but of free will.

15For perhaps he was therefore parted [from thee] for a season, that thou shouldest have him for ever;

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