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yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador[a] and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus— 10 I appeal to you for my child, One′simus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment. 11 (Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful[b] to you and to me.)

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Footnotes

  1. Philemon 1:9 Or an old man
  2. Philemon 1:11 The name Onesimus means useful or (compare verse 20) beneficial

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