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

but I have wished to do nothing without thy mind, that thy good might not be as of necessity but of willingness:

not any longer as a bondman, but above a bondman, a beloved brother, specially to me, and how much rather to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord?

If therefore thou holdest me to be a partner with thee, receive him as me;