7. for we have much joy and comfort in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.
8. Wherefore, having in Christ much boldness to command thee that which is fit--
9. because of the love I rather entreat, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ;
10. I entreat thee concerning my child--whom I did beget in my bonds--Onesimus,
11. who once was to thee unprofitable, and now is profitable to me and to thee,
12. whom I did send again, and thou him (that is, my own bowels) receive,