because I hear of your love and of your faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints (God’s people).

yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—since I am such a person as Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner [for the sake] of Christ Jesus—

I would have chosen to keep him with me, so that he might minister to me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;

I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it in full (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self as well).

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.