Philemon 1:13
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
I would have liked to keep him with me, so that on your behalf he could minister to me in my chains for the gospel.
In context
11 Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.
12 I am sending back to you him who is my very heart.
13 I would have liked to keep him with me, so that on your behalf he could minister to me in my chains for the gospel.
14 But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness will not be out of compulsion, but by your own free will.
15 For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a while, so that you might have him back for good—
Philemon 1:13 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- I would have liked to keep him with me, so that on your behalf he could minister to me in my chains for the gospel.
- KJV King James Version
- Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
- WEB World English Bible
- whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.
- ASV American Standard Version
- whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- whom I did wish to retain to myself, that in thy behalf he might minister to me in the bonds of the good news,
- DBY Darby Translation
- whom I was desirous of keeping with myself, that for thee he might minister to me in the bonds of the glad tidings;
- WBS Webster Bible
- Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered to me in the bonds of the gospel: