Philemon 1:15
“For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;”
Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;
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?
If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
Related Verses
“Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:”
“If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.”
“Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:”
“Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:”
“I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.”