Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

我本来有意将他留下，在我为福音所受的捆锁中替你伺候我。

我本来有意将他留下，在我为福音所受的捆锁中替你伺候我。

我本来有意将他留下，在我为福音所受的捆锁中替你伺候我。

我本想把他留在身边，让他在我为传福音而坐牢期间代替你服侍我。

我本来想把他留在我这里，使他在我为福音被囚禁时，可以替你服事我。

我本来想把他留在自己身边，好让他在我为福音被捆锁的期间，能替你服事我。

我本來有意將他留下，在我為福音所受的捆鎖中替你伺候我。

我本來有意將他留下，在我為福音所受的捆鎖中替你伺候我。

我本來有意將他留下，在我為福音所受的捆鎖中替你伺候我。

我本想把他留在身邊，讓他在我為傳福音而坐牢期間代替你服侍我。

我本來想把他留在我這裡，使他在我為福音被囚禁時，可以替你服事我。

我本來有意思要將他留在身邊，讓他在我為福音受捆鎖時替你服事我。

我本來想把他留在自己身邊，好讓他在我為福音被捆鎖的期間，能替你服事我。

我欲留之偕我、於福音之縲絏中代爾事我、

我為傳福音、陷縲絏、故慾留之偕居、代爾事我、

我為福音受縲絏、原欲留之與我偕居、代爾事我、

本擬留與予俱、俾為福音之故、代爾事予於獄中；

I would have liked to keep him with me so that he could take your place in helping me while I am in chains for the gospel.

I’m being held in chains because of the good news. So I would have liked to keep Onesimus with me. And he could take your place in helping me.

I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel,

I wanted to keep him here with me while I am in these chains for preaching the Good News, and he would have helped me on your behalf.

I wanted to keep him with me, so that in my imprisonment for the gospel he might serve me in your place.

whom I wanted to keep with me, so that in your behalf he might be at my service in my imprisonment for the gospel;

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

whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

I wanted to keep him with me, so that in my imprisonment for the gospel he might serve me in your place.

I wanted to keep him so that he could serve me in your place during my imprisonment for the sake of the gospel.

whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy[ our] brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,

Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.

Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.