Philemon 1:8-14

8Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you what is fitting,

9yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ—

10I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten while in my chains,

11who once was unprofitable to you, but now is profitable to you and to me.

12I am sending him back. You therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

13whom I wished to keep with me, that on your behalf he might minister to me in my chains for the gospel.

14But without your consent I wanted to do nothing, that your good deed might not be by compulsion, as it were, but voluntary.