14 but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own accord.15 For this perhaps is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back forever,16 no longer as a bondservant[a] but more than a bondservant, as a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
