Philemon 1:10-14

I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I fathered in my imprisonment,

who previously was useless to you, but now is useful both to you and to me.

I have sent him back to you in person, that is, sending my very heart,

whom I wanted to keep with me, so that in your behalf he might be at my service in my imprisonment for the gospel;

but I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion, but of your own free will.