Philemon 13-15

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹³ whom I wished to keep with me, so that on your behalf he might minister to me in my ^[a](A)imprisonment 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 of your own free will. ¹⁵ For perhaps ^(C)he was for this reason separated from you for a while, that you would have him back forever,