7. For I have found great joy and consolation in your charity, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.
8. Because of this, I have enough confidence in Christ Jesus to command you concerning certain things,
9. but I beg you instead, for the sake of charity, since you are so much like Paul: an old man and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
10. I beg you, on behalf of my son, whom I have begotten in my chains, Onesimus.