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


In Context

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

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

11 once unserviceable to thee, but now serviceable to thee and to me:

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

13 whom I was desirous of keeping with myself, that for thee he might minister to me in the bonds of the glad tidings;

14 but I have wished to do nothing without thy mind, that thy good might not be as of necessity but of willingness:

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 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: