Philemon 8–10

AN APPEAL FOR ONESIMUS

8 For this reason, although I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do what is right, 9 I appeal to you, instead, on the basis of love. I, Paul, as an elderly manC and now also as a prisonerl of Christ Jesus, 10 appeal to you for my son,m Onesimus.D,n I became his fathero while I was in chains.

C	Or an ambassador
l	2 Ti 1:8 Heb 13:3
m	1 Th 2:11
D	In Gk, Onesimus means “useful”
n	Col 4:9
o	1 Co 4:15