7 For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
8 Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,
9 yet for love`s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus.
10 I beg you for my child, whom I have fathered in my bonds, Onesimus,
11 who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me;
12 I am sending him back. You therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
13 whom I wanted to keep with me, that in your behalf he might minister to me in the bonds of the gospel.
