Philemon 1:11
“Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:”
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.
I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
Related Verses
“If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.”
“For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;”
“Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,”
“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?”
“Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:”