Philemon 1:16

New Testament Epistle (Pauline) ASV (1901)

no longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much rather to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

Philemon 1:16 — American Standard Version

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Context — Philemon 1

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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;

16no longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much rather to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

17If then thou countest me a partner, receive him as myself.

18But if he hath wronged the at all, or oweth [thee] aught, put that to mine account;

19I Paul write it with mine own hand, I will repay it: that I say not unto thee that thou owest to me even thine own self besides.

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