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Wherefore, though I might bee much bolde in Christ to enioyne thee that which is conuenient;

Yet for loues sake I rather beseech thee, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Iesus Christ.

I beseech thee for my sonne Onesimus, whome I haue begotten in my bonds,

Which in time past was to thee vnprofitable: but now profitable to thee and to me:

Whom I haue sent againe: thou therfore receiue him, that is mine owne bowels.

Whome I would haue reteined with mee, that in thy stead hee might haue ministred vnto me in the bonds of the Gospel.

But without thy minde would I doe nothing, that thy benefite should not bee as it were of necessitie, but willingly.