Philemon 1:10-16

CAB(i) 10 I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I begot in my bonds, 11 who once was unprofitable to you, but now is useful to you and to me, 12 whom I am sending back. You then receive him, that is, my very heart; 13 whom I wished to keep with myself, in order that on your behalf he might serve me in the bonds of the gospel. 14 But I wished to do nothing without your consent, in order that your good might not be by necessity, but by being voluntary. 15 For perhaps he was taken away for a time on account of this, in order that you might keep him eternally, 16 no longer as a slave but more than a slave--a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.