Philemon 10-12

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

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.

¹¹ Once he was unprofitable to you, but now he is indeed profitable to you as well as to me.

¹² I am sending him back to you in ^[a]his own person, [and it is like sending] my very heart.