“For perhaps he was for this reason separated from you for a while, that you would have him back forever, 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.”

‭‭Philemon‬ ‭1‬:‭15‬-‭16‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬