12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is mine own [a]bowels,

13 Whom I would have received with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the Gospel.

14 But without thy mind would I do nothing, that thy benefit should not be as it were of [b]necessity, but willingly.

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Footnotes

  1. Philemon 1:12 As mine own son, and as if I had begotten him of mine own body.
  2. Philemon 1:14 That thou mightest not seem to have lent me thy servant upon constraint, but willingly.

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