7 For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,
9 yet for love's sake 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 Ones´imus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
11 which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
12 whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
13 whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel: