“Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:”
Philemon 1:12 (KJV) |
Philemon 1:12
From Philemon 1, in the Book of Philemon (New Testament).
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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:
But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.