10. appeal to you for my son, Onesimus. I fathered him while I was in chains.
11. Once he was useless to you, but now he is useful both to you and to me.
12. I am sending him back to you as a part of myself.
13. I wanted to keep him with me, so that in my imprisonment for the gospel he might serve me in your place.
14. But I didn’t want to do anything without your consent, so that your good deed might not be out of obligation, but of your own free will.
15. For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a brief time, so that you might get him back permanently,