Philemon 1:12
10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
11 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:
13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
14 But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I am sending back to you him who is my very heart.
- KJV
- Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
- WEB
- I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
- ASV
- whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that is, my very heart:
- DARBY
- whom I have sent back to thee: [but do *thou* receive] him, that is, *my* bowels:
- BLB
- whom I sent back to you himself—this [one who] is my inner parts—
- ÅB
- Ta godt imot ham, for det er som om jeg sender mitt eget hjerte!
- OTB
- Jeg sender ham tilbake til deg, sender en del av mitt eget hjerte.
- B1930
- Ta du imot ham, det er mitt eget hjerte!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 6:14–15
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
Read in contextEphesians 4:32
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Read in contextLuke 15:20
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Read in contextMark 11:25
And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Read in contextJeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
Read in contextMatthew 18:21–35
Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
Read in contextDeuteronomy 13:6
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
Read in context2 Samuel 16:11
And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.
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