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


In Context

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

10 I beseech thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,

11 who once was unprofitable to thee, but now is profitable to thee and to me:

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

13 whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

14 but without thy mind I would do nothing; that thy goodness should not be as of necessity, but of free will.

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 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,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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