Philemon 12-14

New Testament for Everyone

¹² I’m sending him to you for your decision—yes, sending the man himself; and this means sending my own heart. ¹³ I would have liked to keep him here with me, so that he could have been your representative in serving me in the chains of the gospel. ¹⁴ But I didn’t want to do anything without you knowing about it. That way, when you did the splendid thing that the situation requires, it wouldn’t be under compulsion, but of your own free will.