Philemon 1:7-11
Philemon 1:7
For I have had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
Philemon 1:8
Therefore, though I have enough confidence in Christ to order you to do what is proper,
Philemon 1:9
yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—since I am such a person as Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus— Plea for Onesimus, a Free Man
Philemon 1:10
I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I fathered in my imprisonment,
Philemon 1:11
who previously was useless to you, but now is useful both to you and to me.