Philemon 8-14

Revised Geneva Translation

⁸ Therefore, though I am very bold in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

⁹ yet for love’s sake, rather, I exhort you (though I am as I am: old, and even now a prisoner for Jesus Christ)

¹⁰ I encourage you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my imprisonment

¹¹ (who in the past was unprofitable to you, but is now profitable to both you and me)

¹² and whom I have sent again. Therefore, receive him who is my own heart,

¹³ whom I wanted to keep with me so that he might have ministered to me in your place in the bonds of the Gospel.

¹⁴ But I do not wish to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness would not be out of necessity, but willingly.