Whom I would have retained with me, that in your stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.
For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation by which you are called,
Even as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; since as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my grace.
Because for the work of Christ he was near unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellow laborer,
I beseech you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
Whom I have sent again: you therefore receive him, that is, my own heart: