^{9 Ref} yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

^{10 Ref} I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,{Onesimus means "useful."}

^{11 Ref} who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.

^{12 Ref} I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,