8 Therefore, though I have plenty of boldness in Messiah to order you to do what’s right,
9 yet for love’s sake I appeal to you instead. I, Paul, am an old man and now also a prisoner belonging to Messiah Yeshua.
10 I beg you for my child Onesimus—for whom I became a spiritual father while in chains.
11 He once was useless to you, but now is useful both to you and me.
12 I sent him back to you—he is my very heart.
13 I really wanted to keep him with me, so that on your behalf he might serve me while I am in chains for the Good News.
14 But I didn’t want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness wouldn’t be by force but by free will.