4. I thank my God, always making mention of you in my prayers,
5. because I hear about your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints.
6. I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing that is in us for Christ.
7. For I have great joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
8. Therefore, although I have great confidence in Christ to order you to do what is proper,
9. instead I appeal to you because of love, since I am such a one as Paul, now an old man and also a prisoner of Christ Jesus.
10. I am appealing to you concerning my child whom I became the father of during my imprisonment, Onesimus.
11. Once he was useless to you, but now he is useful to you and to me,
12. whom I have sent back to you himself, that is, my heart,