Spiritual Children
Philemon 1:10
I beseech you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:


Calvin's three children all died in infancy. Of the last he wrote to a friend: "The Lord gave me another son, and the Lord hath taken him away; but have I not thousands of children in the faith of Christ?"

(J. F. B. Tinling, B. A.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

WEB: I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,




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