King James Version (KJV) Authorized Version 1611

Philemon 1:12 KJV

"Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:"

Philemon Chapter 1, Verse 12

Philemon 1:12 in Context (Verses 9–15 KJV)

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.

I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:

Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:

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

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

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