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10 I appeal to you for my [own spiritual] child, Onesimus [meaning profitable], whom I have begotten [in the faith] while a captive in these chains.

11 Once he was unprofitable to you, but now he is indeed profitable to you as well as to me.

12 I am sending him back to you in [a]his own person, [and it is like sending] my very heart.

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Footnotes

  1. Philemon 1:12 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.

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