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.
13 I wanted to keep him with me, so that in your place he might serve me during my imprisonment for the gospel.
14 But without your consent I would do nothing, so that your goodness would not be forced, but given willingly.