7. For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
8. Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
9. yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
10. I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I became in my imprisonment.
11. (Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
12. I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
13. I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel,