7. For we have great joy and encouragement on account of your love, because the hearts of the saints are refreshed through you, brother.
8. Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you to do that which is proper,
9. yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ—
10. I appeal to you on behalf of my son Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment,
11. who in the past was unprofitable to you, but now he is profitable to you and to me.
12. I have sent him back. Therefore receive him as my own heart.