8 Therefore, although I have great confidence in Christ to order you to do what is proper,
9 instead I appeal to you because of love, since I am such a one as Paul, now an old man and also a prisoner of Christ Jesus.
10 I am appealing to you concerning my child whom I became the father of during my imprisonment, Onesimus.
11 Once he was useless to you, but now he is useful to you and to me,
12 whom I have sent back to you himself, that is, my heart,
13 whom I wanted to keep with me, in order that he might serve me on behalf of you during my imprisonment for the gospel.
14 But apart from your consent, I wanted to do nothing, in order that your good deed might be not as according to necessity, but according to your own free will.