yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ— 10 I appeal to you for my son (A)Onesimus, whom I have begotten while in my chains, 11 who once was unprofitable to you, but now is profitable to you and to me.

12 I am sending him [a]back. You therefore receive him, that is, my own [b]heart,

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Footnotes

  1. Philemon 1:12 NU back to you in person, that is, my own heart,
  2. Philemon 1:12 See v. 7.

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