that the fellowship of your faith may become effectual, in the knowledge of every good thing in you, for Christ.

For I had much joy and consolation on account of your love, because the tender affections of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

yet for love's sake I rather exhort, being such a one as Paul an aged man, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus:

I beseech you for my child, whom I begat in my bonds, Onesimus,

For, perhaps, he departed for a season for this reason, that you might have him back forever;

But, at the same time, prepare also a lodging for me; for I hope that, through your prayers, I shall be given to you.