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


In Context

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.

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 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: