7. For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
8. Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
9. yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
10. I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I became in my imprisonment.
11. (Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)