Philemon 1:12

8Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

9yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

10I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have become the father of in my chains,

11who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.

12I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

13whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

14But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

15For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while that you would have him forever,

16no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.