Philemon 1:15

1:14 But without your consent I wanted to do nothing, that your good deed might not be by compulsion, as it were, but voluntary.

1:15 For perhaps he departed for a while for this purpose, that you might receive him forever,

1:16 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.