2. and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house:
3. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4. I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,
5. because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints;
6. and I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective through the knowledge of every good thing which is in you for Christ's sake.
7. For I have come to have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
8. Therefore, though I have enough confidence in Christ to order you to do what is proper,
9. yet for love's sake I rather appeal to you-since I am such a person as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus-
10. I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my imprisonment,