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Philemon 1:15

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

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  1. Philemon 1:13

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

  2. Philemon 1:14

    But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

  3. Philemon 1:16

    Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?

  4. Philemon 1:17

    If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.