Living_Oracles(i)
10 I beseech you for my son, whom I have begot, in my bonds, even Onesimus;
11 who formerly was to you unprofitable, but now will be very profitable to you, even as he has been to me-
12 whom I have sent back: do you, therefore, receive him as an object of my tenderest affection;
13 whom I was desirous to have detained with myself, that, in your stead, he might have ministered to me, in these bonds, for the gospel:
14 but without your mind I would do nothing, that the good derived might not be as if by constraint, but as voluntary.
15 Perhaps, also, for this reason he was separated for a little while, that you might have him for ever:
16 no longer as a slave only, but above a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me-and how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.