7 For I have experienced much joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the holy ones have been refreshed by you, brother.
8 Therefore, although I have the full right in Christ to order you to do what is proper,
9 I rather urge you out of love, being as I am, Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus.
10 I urge you on behalf of my child Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment,
11 who was once useless to you but is now useful to [both] you and me.
12 I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you.
13 I should have liked to retain him for myself, so that he might serve me on your behalf in my imprisonment for the gospel,