Bible verse
I am sending back to you him who is my very heart.
Philemon 1:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from Philemon 1.
8 So although in Christ I am bold enough to order you to do what is proper,
9 I prefer to appeal on the basis of love. For I, Paul, am now aged, and a prisoner of Christ Jesus as well.
10 I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I became while I was in chains.
11 Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.
12 I am sending back to you him who is my very heart.
13 I would have liked to keep him with me, so that on your behalf he could minister to me in my chains for the gospel.
14 But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness will not be out of compulsion, but by your own free will.
15 For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a while, so that you might have him back for good—
16 no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a beloved brother. He is especially beloved to me, but even more so to you, both in person and in the Lord.
KJV
Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
ASV
whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that is, my very heart:
ERV
whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that is, my very heart:
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