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Philemon 1:8

Therefore, though I have enough confidence in Christ to order you to do what is proper,

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Philemon 1:9

yet for love's sake I rather appeal to you—since I am such a person as Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus—

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Philemon 1:10

I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I fathered in my imprisonment,

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Philemon 1:11

who previously was useless to you, but now is useful both to you and to me.

Philemon 1:12

I have sent him back to you in person, that is, sending my very heart,

Philemon 1:13

whom I wanted to keep with me, so that in your behalf he might be at my service in my imprisonment for the gospel;

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Philemon 1:14

but I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion, but of your own free will.

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Philemon 1:15

For perhaps it was for this reason that he was separated from you for a while, that you would have him back forever,

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Philemon 1:16

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

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Philemon 1:17

If then you regard me as a partner, accept him as you would me.

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