Philemon 1:15

For perhaps it was for this reason he was parted from you for a time, that you might receive him back wholly and for ever yours;

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;

In Context

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.

16no longer as a slave, but as something better than a slave--a brother peculiarly dear to me, and even dearer to you, both as a servant and as a fellow Christian.

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Cross References

Acts 4:28to do all that Thy power and Thy will had predetermined should be done.

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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