New American Standard Bible

Philemon 1:9-13 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

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,

11. who formerly was useless to you, but now is useful both to you and to me.

12. I have sent him back to you in person, that is, sending my very heart,

13. whom I wished to keep with me, so that on your behalf he might minister to me in my imprisonment for the gospel;