8. Wherefore though I have much confidence in Christ Jesus, to command thee that which is to the purpose:
9. For charity sake I rather beseech, whereas thou art such a one, as Paul an old man, and now a prisoner also of Jesus Christ.
10. I beseech thee for my son, whom I have begotten in my bands, Onesimus,
11. Who hath been heretofore unprofitable to thee, but now is profitable both to me and thee,
12. Whom I have sent back to thee. And do thou receive him as my own bowels.
13. Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered to me in the bands of the gospel:
14. But without thy counsel I would do nothing: that thy good deed might not be as it were of necessity, but voluntary.
15. For perhaps he therefore departed for a season from thee, that thou mightest receive him again for ever: