Philemon:1:10-16

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* I beseech thee for my son Onesimus , whom I have begotten in my bonds : * Which in time past was to thee unprofitable , but now profitable to thee and to me : * Whom I have sent again : thou therefore receive him , that is , mine own bowels : * Whom I would have retained with me , that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel : * But without thy mind would I do nothing ; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity , but willingly . * For perhaps he therefore departed for a season , that thou shouldest receive him for ever ; * Not now as a servant , but above a servant , a brother beloved , specially to me , but how much more unto thee , both in the flesh , and in the Lord ?

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