Philemon 11-13

Christian Standard Bible

¹¹Once he was useless to you, but now he is useful both to you and to me. ¹²I am sending him back to you—I am sending my very own heart.^[a]^[b] ¹³I wanted to keep him with me, so that in my imprisonment for the gospel he might serve me in your place.

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12 Other mss read him back. Receive him, my own heart.
12 Lit you—that is, my own heart

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