Philemon 8-10

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

I Appeal To You For Onesimus, Your Slave And Our Beloved Brother

⁸ Therefore, [although] having much boldness in Christ to be commanding you to do the fitting thing, ⁹ for the sake of love I am rather appealing— being such a one as Paul, an old-man^[a], and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus. ¹⁰ I am appealing to you concerning my child whom I fathered in my imprisonment, Onesimus,