I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I begat in my bonds,
And one of the company answered and said: Master I have brought my son unto thee, which hath a dumb spirit.
¶ I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercifulness of God that ye make your bodies a quick sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God which is your reasonable serving of God.
¶ I write not these things to shame you: but as my beloved sons I warn you.
For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ: yet have ye not many fathers. In Christ Iesu, I have begotten you thorow the gospell.
¶ My little children (of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be fashioned in you)
with one Onesimus a faithful, and a beloved brother, which is one of you. They shall shew you of all things which are a doing here.
¶ Unto Timothy his natural son in the faith. ¶ Grace mercy and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Iesu Christ.
¶ To Titus his natural son in the common faith. ¶ Grace mercy and peace from God the father, and from the Lord Iesu Christ our saviour.
which in time passed was to thee unprofitable: but now profitable both to thee and also to me,
whom I would fain have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospell.
I have no greater joy than for to hear how that my sons walk in verity.