For we have great thankfulness and encouragement through thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

for love's sake I rather exhort, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also prisoner of Jesus Christ.

I exhort thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,

whom I was desirous of keeping with myself, that for thee he might minister to me in the bonds of the glad tidings;

for perhaps for this reason he has been separated from thee for a time, that thou mightest possess him fully for ever;

But withal prepare me also a lodging; for I hope that I shall be granted to you through your prayers.