Philemon 1:13

It was my wish to keep him at my side for him to attend to my wants, as your representative, during my imprisonment for the Good News.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12I am sending him back to you, though in so doing I send part of myself.

14Only I wished to do nothing without your consent, so that his kind action of yours might not be done under pressure, but might be a voluntary one.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 16:17It is a joy to me that Stephanas, Fortunatus and Achaicus have now arrived, because what was wanting so far as you are concerned they have supplied.

Ephesians 4:1I, then, the prisoner for the Master's sake, entreat you to live and act as becomes those who have received the call that you have received--

Philippians 2:30because it was for the sake of Christ's work that he came so near death, hazarding, as he did, his very life in endeavouring to make good any deficiency that there might be in your gifts to me.

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 →

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