I am sending back to you him who is my very heart.
Cross References
Philemon 1:11Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.
Philemon 1:13I would have liked to keep him with me, so that on your behalf he could minister to me in my chains for the gospel.
Treasury of Scripture
Whom I have sent again: you therefore receive him, that is, my own bowels:
thou.
Matthew 6:14,15
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: …
Matthew 18:21-35
Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? …
Mark 11:25
And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
mine.
Deuteronomy 13:6
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
2 Samuel 16:11
And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
