12 I am sending him [a]back. You therefore receive him, that is, my own [b]heart, 13 whom I wished to keep with me, that on your behalf he might minister to me in my chains for the gospel. 14 But without your consent I wanted to do nothing, (A)that your good deed might not be by compulsion, as it were, but voluntary.

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Footnotes

  1. Philemon 1:12 NU back to you in person, that is, my own heart,
  2. Philemon 1:12 See v. 7.

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