World English Bible
"I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,"
— Philemon 1:12, World English Bible
“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 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 beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,
who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.
I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.
But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.
For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever,