Philemon 13-15

Legacy Standard Bible

¹³ whom I intended to keep with me, so that on your behalf he might minister to me in my ^(A)chains for the gospel, ¹⁴ but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would ^(B)not be, in effect, by compulsion but voluntary. ¹⁵ For perhaps ^(C)he was for this reason separated from you for a while, that you would have him back forever,