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

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

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Paul’s Plea for Onesimus

Therefore, although in Christ I could be bold and order you to do what you ought to do, yet I prefer to appeal to you(A) on the basis of love. It is as none other than Paul—an old man and now also a prisoner(B) of Christ Jesus— 10 that I appeal to you for my son(C) Onesimus,[a](D) who became my son while I was in chains.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Philemon 1:10 Onesimus means useful.