Philemon 8-10

New Testament for Everyone

Paul’s appeal

⁸ Because of all this I could be very bold in the Messiah, and order you to do the right thing. ⁹ But, because of love, I’d much rather appeal to you—yes, it’s me, Paul, speaking, an old man as I am and now a prisoner of Messiah Jesus! ¹⁰ I am appealing to you about my child, the one I have fathered here in prison: Onesimus, “Mr Useful.”