Philemon 1:11
who, for some time, has been unprofitable to you, but now is very profitable to you and to me:
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
In Context
10I beseech you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds,
12I send him back, and do you receive him, that is, my son.
Cross References
Luke 15:24for this my son was dead, and is alive again: he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
Luke 17:10So also you, when you shall have done all things that you arc commanded to do, say, We are unprofitable servants; for we have done what was our duty to do.
2 Timothy 4:11Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for the ministry.
Matthew Henry on Philemon 1:9-25
The Apostle's Plea for Onesimus; Salutations. ( a. d. 62.) 8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, 9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 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: 12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels: 13… Read the whole commentary →