Phlm 1:8-16
8Therefore, although I have the full right* in Christ to order you to do what is proper,
9I rather urge you out of love, being as I am, Paul, an old man,* and now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus.g
10I urge you on behalf of my child Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment,h
11who was once useless to you but is now useful* to [both] you and me.
12I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you.
13I should have liked to retain him for myself, so that he might serve* me on your behalf in my imprisonment for the gospel,i
14but I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that the good you do might not be forced but voluntary.j
15Perhaps this is why he was away from* you for a while, that you might have him back forever,
16no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a brother, beloved especially to me, but even more so to you, as a man* and in the Lord.k