Philemon 9-11

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁹ Yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you just for what I am—I, Paul, an ambassador [of Christ Jesus] and an old man and now a prisoner for His sake also—

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.