Coverdale(i)
8 Wherfore though I haue great boldnes in Christ to commaunde the that which becommeth the,
9 yet for loues sake I rather beseke ye, though I be as I am, eue Paul aged, and now a presoner also of Iesu Christ.
10 I beseke the for my sonne Onesimus (whom I haue begotten in my bondes)
11 which in tyme past was to the vnprofitable, but now profitable both to the and me.
12 Whom I haue sent agayne: but receaue thou him (that is) euen myne awne hert.
13 For I wolde haue kepte him styll with me, that in thy steade he might haue mynistred vnto me in ye bondes of ye Gospell:
14 Neuertheles without thy mynde wolde I do nothinge, that ye good which thou doest, shulde not be of compulsion, but wyllingly.
15 Happly he therfore departed for a season, that thou shuldest receaue him for euer:
16 not now as a seruaunt, but aboue a seruaunt, euen a brother beloued, specially to me, but how moch more vnto ye, both in ye flesh and in the LORDE?
17 Yf thou holde me for thy companyon, receaue him then euen as my selfe.
18 But yf he haue hurte the, or oweth the oughte, that laye to my charge.
19 I Paul haue wrytten it with myne awne hande. I wil recompence it: so that I do not saye vnto ye, how that thou owest vnto me euen thine owne selfe.
20 Euen so brother, let me enioye the in the LORDE: refresh thou my hert in the LORDE.