Hearing of your love and faith, which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;

For we have great joy and consolation in your love, because the hearts of the saints are refreshed by you, brother.

I beseech you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

Whom I have sent again: you therefore receive him, that is, my own heart:

Whom I would have retained with me, that in your stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

I Paul have written it with my own hand, I will repay it: nevertheless I do not say to you how you owe me even your own self besides.

Yea, brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: refresh my heart in the Lord.