5 because I’ve heard of your love and faithfulness, which you have both for the Lord Jesus and for all God’s people.
6 I pray that your partnership in the faith might become effective by an understanding of all that is good among us in Christ.
7 I have great joy and encouragement because of your love, since the hearts of God’s people are refreshed by your actions, my brother.
8 Therefore, though I have enough confidence in Christ to command you to do the right thing,
9 I would rather appeal to you through love. I, Paul—an old man, and now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus—
10 appeal to you for my child Onesimus. I became his father in the faith during my time in prison.
11 He was useless to you before, but now he is useful to both of us.