4. I thank my God, always mentioning you in my prayers,
5. whenever I hear of your love and faith, which you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints,
6. that the sharing of your faith may be most effective by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in you from Christ Jesus.
7. For we have great joy and encouragement on account of your love, because the hearts of the saints are refreshed through you, brother.
8. Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you to do that which is proper,
9. yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ—
10. I appeal to you on behalf of my son Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment,
11. who in the past was unprofitable to you, but now he is profitable to you and to me.