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Philemon 1:15
Philemon 1:15 is verse 15 of Philemon chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a while, so that you might have him back for good—
King James Version
For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;
World English Bible
For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while that you would have him forever,
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Philemon 1:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible
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—
16 no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a beloved brother. He is especially beloved to me, but even more so to you, both in person and in the Lord.
17 So if you consider me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 45:5And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.
Genesis 45:6For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
Genesis 45:7God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Genesis 45:8Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 50:20As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
Psalms 76:10Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.
Isaiah 20:6And on that day the dwellers of this coastland will say, ‘See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’”
Acts 4:28They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.