Philemon 11-13

Amplified Bible

¹¹ Once he was useless to you, but now he is indeed ^[a]useful to you as well as to me. ¹² I have sent him back to you in person, that is, like sending my very heart. ¹³ I would have chosen to keep him with me, so that he might minister to me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;