Philemon 13-15

American Standard Version

¹³ whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the ^[a]gospel: ¹⁴ but without thy mind I would do nothing; that thy goodness should not be as of necessity, but of free will. ¹⁵ For perhaps he was therefore parted from thee for a season, that thou shouldest have him for ever;