Philemon 8-10

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁸ Therefore, though I have abundant boldness in Christ to charge you to do what is fitting and required and your duty to do,

⁹ Yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you just for what I am—I, Paul, an ambassador [of Christ Jesus] and an old man and now a prisoner for His sake also—

¹⁰ I appeal to you for my [own spiritual] child, Onesimus [meaning profitable], whom I have begotten [in the faith] while a captive in these chains.