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.
14 But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.
15 For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever,
