Catholic Public Domain Version
"So I have sent him back to you. And may you receive him like my own heart. "
— Philemon 1:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:”
“whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that is, my very heart: ”
“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:”
but I beg you instead, for the sake of charity, since you are so much like Paul: an old man and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
I beg you, on behalf of my son, whom I have begotten in my chains, Onesimus.
In times past, he was useless to you, but now he is useful both to me and to you.
So I have sent him back to you. And may you receive him like my own heart.
I myself wanted to retain him with me, so that he might minister to me, on your behalf, while I am in the chains of the Gospel.
But I was willing to do nothing without your counsel, so as not to make use of your good deed as if out of necessity, but only willingly.
So perhaps, then, he departed from you for a time, so that you might receive him again for eternity,