Philemon 1: 9 - 10, 12 - 17
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| 9
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yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you -- I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus --
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| 10
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I appeal to you for my child, Ones'imus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
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| 12
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I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
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| 13
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I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
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| 14
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but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
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| 15
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Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
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| 16
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no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
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| 17
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So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
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