yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now (A)a prisoner also for Christ Jesus— 10 I appeal to you for (B)my child, (C)Onesimus,[a] (D)whose father I became in my imprisonment. 11 (Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)

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Footnotes

  1. Philemon 1:10 Onesimus means useful (see verse 11) or beneficial (see verse 20)

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