What does Philemon 1:11 mean?

Philemon 1:11 highlights themes such as faith and obedience when read in context.

How should I apply Philemon 1:11 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:

9Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

10I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

11Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:

12Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:

13Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

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