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Philemon 1:11 KJV
Philemon · chapter 1 · verse 11
Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:Philemon 1:11 · King James Version
Philemon 1:11 in context
9Yet for love’s sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
10I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
11Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
12Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
13Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
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Key words (Strong's)
- unprofitableachrēstosuseless, unprofitableG890 →
- profitableeuchrēstoseasy to make use of, usefulG2173 →
- pastpoteonceG4218 →
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We have here, I. The main business of the epistle, which was to plead with Philemon on behalf of Onesimus, that he would receive him and be reconciled to him. Many arguments Paul urges for this purpose, Plm 1:8-21.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-25