Philemon 1:12
Good News Translation
I am sending him back to you now, and with him goes my heart.

New Revised Standard Version
I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you.

Contemporary English Version
Sending Onesimus back to you makes me very sad.

New American Bible
I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whom I have sent back to thee. And do thou receive him as my own bowels.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Whom I have sent back to thee. And do thou receive him as my own bowels.

thou.

Matthew 6:14,15 For if you will forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father will forgive you also your offences. . . .

Matthew 18:21-35 Then came Peter unto him and said: Lord, how often shall my brother offend against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? . . .

Mark 11:25 And when you shall stand to pray, forgive, if you have aught against any man: that your Father also, who is in heaven, may forgive you your sins.

Ephesians 4:32 And be ye kind one to another: merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ.

mine.

Deuteronomy 13:6 If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy own soul, would persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve strange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers,

2 Samuel 16:11 And the king said to Abisai, and to all his servants: Behold my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now a son of Jemini? let him alone that he may curse as the Lord hath bidden him.

Jeremiah 31:20 Surely Ephraim is an honourable son to me, surely he is a tender child: for since I spoke of him, I will still remember him. Therefore are my bowels troubled for him: pitying I will pity him, saith the Lord.

Luke 15:20 And rising up, he came to his father. And when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion and running to him fell upon his neck and kissed him.

Context
Paul's Appeal for Onesimus
11Who hath been heretofore unprofitable to thee but now is profitable both to me and thee: 12Whom I have sent back to thee. And do thou receive him as my own bowels. 13Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered to me in the bands of the gospel.…
Cross References
Philemon 1:11
Who hath been heretofore unprofitable to thee but now is profitable both to me and thee:

Philemon 1:13
Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered to me in the bands of the gospel.

Philemon 1:11
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