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Philemon 1:13

Philemon 1:13 is verse 13 of Philemon chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

I would have liked to keep him with me, so that on your behalf he could minister to me in my chains for the gospel.

Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

Philemon 1:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible

11 Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.

12 I am sending back to you him who is my very heart.

13 I would have liked to keep him with me, so that on your behalf he could minister to me in my chains for the gospel.

14 But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness will not be out of compulsion, but by your own free will.

15 For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a while, so that you might have him back for good—

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