Philemon 13-15

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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

¹⁴ But without thy counsel I would do nothing: that thy good deed might not be as it were of necessity, but voluntary.

¹⁵ For perhaps he therefore departed for a season from thee, that thou mightest receive him again for ever: