Philemon 9-11

Tree of Life Version

⁹ yet for love’s sake I appeal to you instead. I, Paul, am an old man and now also a prisoner belonging to Messiah Yeshua. ¹⁰ I beg you for my child Onesimus—for whom I became a spiritual father while in chains. ¹¹ He once was useless to you, but now is useful both to you and me.