9 yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ—

10 I appeal to you for my son ^aOnesimus, whom I have begotten while in my chains,  ‡

12 I am sending him¹ back. You therefore receive him, that is, my own² heart,  ‡

13 whom I wished to keep with me, that on your behalf he might minister to me in my chains for the gospel.