12Whom I have sent again: you therefore receive him, that is, my own bowels:


In Context

9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech you, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

10 I beseech you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

11 Which in time past was to you unprofitable, but now profitable to you and to me:

12 Whom I have sent again: you therefore receive him, that is, my own bowels:

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

14 But without your mind would I do nothing; that your benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

Philemon 1:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:12Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:12I am sending him--who is my very heart--back to you.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:12whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that is, my very heart:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:12Whom I have sent back to thee. And do thou receive him as my own bowels.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:12whom I have sent back to thee: but do thou receive him, that is, my bowels:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:12whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that is, my very heart:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:12Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, my own bowels:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:12I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:12whom I did send again, and thou him (that is, my own bowels) receive,