instead I appeal to you because of love, since I[a] am such a one as Paul, now an old man and also a prisoner of Christ Jesus. 10 I am appealing to you concerning my child whom I became the father of during my imprisonment, Onesimus. 11 Once he was useless to you, but now he is useful to you[b] and to me,

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Footnotes

  1. Philemon 1:9 Here “since” is supplied as a component of the participle (“am”) which is understood as causal
  2. Philemon 1:11 Some manuscripts have “both to you”