Coverdale(i)
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?