Philemon 1:13
Whom I would have retained with me, that in your stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
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Context
11 Which in time past was to you unprofitable, but now profitable to you and to me:
12 Whom I have sent again: you therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in your stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
14 But without your mind would I do nothing; that your benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
15 For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that you shouldest receive him for ever;