001:006 praying as I do, that their participation in your faith may
result in others fully recognizing all the right affection
that is in us toward Christ.
001:007 For I have found great joy and comfort in your love,
because the hearts of God's people have been, and are,
refreshed through you, my brother.
001:008 Therefore, though I might with Christ's authority speak very freely and order you to do what is fitting,
001:009 it is for love's sake that—instead of that—although I am none other than Paul the aged, and am now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus,
001:010 I entreat you on behalf of my own child whose father I have
become while in my chains—I mean Onesimus.
001:011 Formerly he was useless to you, but now—true to his name—
he is of great use to you and to me.
001:012 I am sending him back to you, though in so doing I send
part of myself.
001:013 It was my wish to keep him at my side for him to attend
to my wants, as your representative, during my imprisonment
for the Good News.
001:014 Only I wished to do nothing without your consent, so that
his kind action of yours might not be done under pressure,
but might be a voluntary one.
001:015 For perhaps it was for this reason he was parted from you for a time, that you might receive him back wholly and for ever yours;