King James Version
"Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:"
— Philemon 1:12, King James Version
“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:”
Yet for love’s sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
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;