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Paul says, “I am sending him back to you,” calling Onesimus “my very heart.” He also says he did not want to act “without your consent,” so that Philemon’s good deed would not be forced (Philemon 1:12–14).
12I am sending him back. You therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
13whom I wanted to keep with me, that in your behalf he might minister to me in the bonds of the gospel.
14But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.