“For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;”
Philemon 1:15 (KJV) |
Philemon 1:15
From Philemon 1, in the Book of Philemon (New Testament).
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Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
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But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
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For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;
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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?
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If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.