Philemon 1:13

I did wish to keep him with me, that, in your stead, he might serve me in my bonds for the gospel;

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Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus; for they have supplied what was wanting on your part:

because for the work of the Christ he was near to death, not regarding his life, that he might supply that which was lacking in your service to me.

PAUL, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy my brother, to Philemon my beloved, and our fellow-laborer,

For this reason, I Paul, the prisoner of the Christ Jesus on account of you Gentiles,

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called;