New King James Version

Philemon 1:6-10 New King James Version (NKJV)

6. that the sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

7. For we have great joy and consolation in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.

8. Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you what is fitting,

9. yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ—

10. I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten while in my chains,