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Scripture Context
Philemon 1:9 - Philemon 1:19
9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds;
11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me;
12 Whom I have sent again; thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels;
13 Whom I would have retained 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 necessity, but willingly.
15 For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him forever;
16 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?
17 If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee aught, put that on mine account;
19 I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it; albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.