Philemon 1:12
I send him back, and do you receive him, that is, my son.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
In Context
11who, for some time, has been unprofitable to you, but now is very profitable to you and to me:
13I did wish to keep him with me, that, in your stead, he might serve me in my bonds for the gospel;
Cross References
Matthew 18:21Then Peter came to him, and said: Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Till seven times?
Luke 15:20And he arose, and came to his father. And while he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion on him, and ran and fell upon his neck, and kissed him.
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 →