6 that the sharing of your faith may be most effective by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in you from Christ Jesus.
7 For we have great joy and encouragement on account of your love, because the hearts of the saints are refreshed through you, brother.
8 Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you to do that which is proper,
9 yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ—
10 I appeal to you on behalf of my son Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment,
11 who in the past was unprofitable to you, but now he is profitable to you and to me.
12 I have sent him back. Therefore receive him as my own heart.