Philemon 1:12 - English Majority Text Version 2009

¹² whom I am sending back. You therefore receive him, that is, my very heart;

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that is, my very heart:

Common English Bible

¹² I’m sending him back to you, which is like sending you my own heart.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² So I have sent him back to you. And may you receive him like my own heart.

Philemon 1:12 Cross References

Mark 11:25

"And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive [them], that your Father in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

Luke 15:20

And he arose and went to his father. But when he was still far off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and he ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

Ephesians 4:32

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as also God in Christ forgave us.

Philemon 1:11

who formerly was unprofitable to you, but now is profitable both to you and to me,

Philemon 1:13

whom I wished to keep with myself, in order that on your behalf he might serve me in the bonds of the gospel.