Philemon 13-15

New American Standard Bible

¹³ whom I wanted to keep with me, so that in your behalf he might be at my service in my ^[a](A)imprisonment for the gospel; ¹⁴ but I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness would ^(B)not be, in effect, by compulsion, but of your own free will. ¹⁵ For perhaps it was ^(C)for this reason that he was separated from you for a while, that you would have him back forever,