¹² I am sending him back. You therefore receive him, that is, my own heart, 

¹³ whom I wished to keep with me, that on your behalf he might minister to me in my chains for the gospel. 

¹⁴ But without your consent I wanted to do nothing, that your good deed might not be by compulsion, as it were, but voluntary.

¹⁵ For perhaps he departed for a while for this purpose, that you might receive him forever, 

¹⁶ no longer as a slave but more than a slave—a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

¹⁷ If then you count me as a partner, receive him as you would me.