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Philemon 10-12
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A Plea for Onesimus to be Freed

10 I appeal to you for my [own spiritual] child Onesimus, whom I have fathered [in the faith] while a captive in these chains. 11 Once he was useless to you, but now he is indeed [a]useful to you as well as to me. 12 I have sent him back to you in person, that is, like sending my very heart.

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  1. Philemon 1:11 Paul makes a play on words here because Onesimus means “useful” or “profitable.”
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