Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.
Cross References
Matthew 25:30And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
Philemon 1:10I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I became while I was in chains.
Philemon 1:12I am sending back to you him who is my very heart.
Treasury of Scripture
Which in time past was to you unprofitable, but now profitable to you and to me:
unprofitable.
Job 30:1,2
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock…
Matthew 25:30
And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Luke 17:10
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
profitable.
Luke 15:24,32
For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry…
2 Timothy 4:11
Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.