12I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
12I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
9 yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
10 I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,
11 who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.
12 I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
13 whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.
14 But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.
1:12Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
1:12I am sending him--who is my very heart--back to you.
1:12whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that is, my very heart:
1:12Whom I have sent back to thee. And do thou receive him as my own bowels.
1:12whom I have sent back to thee: but do thou receive him, that is, my bowels:
1:12whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that is, my very heart:
1:12Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, my own bowels:
1:12whom I did send again, and thou him (that is, my own bowels) receive,
1:12Whom I have sent again: you therefore receive him, that is, my own bowels: