^{10 Ref} I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

^{11 Ref} Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:

^{12 Ref} Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:

^{13 Ref} Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

^{14 Ref} But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

^{15 Ref} For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;

^{16 Ref} Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?