9. yet for love's sake I rather beseech, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus:
10. I beseech thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,
11. who was aforetime unprofitable to thee, but now is profitable to thee and to me:
12. whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that is, my very heart:
13. whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
14. but without thy mind I would do nothing; that thy goodness should not be as of necessity, but of free will.
15. For perhaps he was therefore parted from thee for a season, that thou shouldest have him for ever;