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Wherefore, though I have, much, freedom of speech, in Christ, to be enjoining upon thee that which is befitting,

Yet, for loves sake, I rather exhort, - being, such a one, as Paul the aged, now, also, even a prisoner of Christ Jesus, -

I exhort thee concerning my own child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, - Onesimus:

Him who, at one time, was, unto thee, unserviceable, but, now, unto thee and unto me, serviceable;

Whom I have sent back unto thee - him, that is, my own, tender affections! -

Whom, I, was minded, with myself, to detain, that, in thy behalf, unto me, he might be ministering in the bonds of the joyful message;

But, apart from thy mind, I wished to do, nothing, that, not as by necessity, thy goodness should be, but, by choice.