11 who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me;
12 I am sending him back. You therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
13 whom I wanted to keep with me, that in your behalf he might minister to me in the bonds of the gospel.
14 But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.
15 For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever,
16 no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, specially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
17 If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.
