American Standard Version
"whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that is, my very heart: "
— Philemon 1:12, American Standard Version
“Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:”
“I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,”
“I have sent him(who is my very heart) back to you.”
“Whom I have sent back to thee. And do thou receive him as my own bowels.”
“Whom I have sent back to you, him who is my very heart:”
“Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:”
yet for love’s sake I rather beseech, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus:
I beseech thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,
who once was unprofitable to thee, but now is profitable to thee and to me:
whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that is, my very heart:
whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
but without thy mind I would do nothing; that thy goodness should not be as of necessity, but of free will.
For perhaps he was therefore parted from thee for a season, that thou shouldest have him for ever;