8. Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command thee that which is expedient,
9. yet for the sake of charity I rather beseech thee, being such a one as Paul the aged and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
10. I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds,
11. who in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now is profitable to thee and to me,
12. whom I send again unto thee; therefore, receive him, as you would receive me.
13. I desired to retain him with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel,