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12 whom I have sent home agayne. Thou therfore receave him that is to saye myne awne bowels 13 whom I wolde fayne have retayned with me that in thy stede he myght have ministred vnto me in ye bondes of the gospell. 14 Neverthelesse without thy mynde wolde I doo nothinge that yt good which springeth of the shuld not be as it were of necessitie but willingly. 15 Haply he therfore departed for a season yt thou shuldest receave him for ever 16 not nowe as a servaut: but above a servaunt I meane a brother beloved specially to me: but how moche more vnto the both in the flesshe and also in the Lorde? Philemon 1:12-16, Tyndale Bible of 1526. Public domain.
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