For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

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

I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,

whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever,

Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.