Philemon 12-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹² Whom I have sent back to thee. And do thou receive him as my own bowels.

¹³ Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered to me in the bands of the gospel:

¹⁴ But without thy counsel I would do nothing: that thy good deed might not be as it were of necessity, but voluntary.