Philemon 1:10-16

MKJV(i) 10 I entreat you for my child Onesimus, whom I have fathered in my bonds, 11 he who was once worthless to you, but now useful to you and to me; whom I sent back to you. 12 Even receive him, that is, my own heart, 13 whom I resolved to retain with myself, so that for you he might have ministered to me in the bonds of the gospel. 14 But without your consent I was willing to do nothing, that your good should not be of necessity, but willingly. 15 For perhaps because of this he was separated from you for an hour, that you should receive him eternally, 16 not now as a slave, but beyond a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.