Philemon 1:10
New International Version
that I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, who became my son while I was in chains.

New Living Translation
I appeal to you to show kindness to my child, Onesimus. I became his father in the faith while here in prison.

English Standard Version
I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I became in my imprisonment.

Berean Standard Bible
I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I became while I was in chains.

Berean Literal Bible
I exhort you for my child whom I have begotten in chains, Onesimus,

King James Bible
I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

New King James Version
I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten while in my chains,

New American Standard Bible
I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I fathered in my imprisonment,

NASB 1995
I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my imprisonment,

NASB 1977
I appeal to you for my child, whom I have begotten in my imprisonment, Onesimus,

Legacy Standard Bible
I plead with you for my child Onesimus, of whom I became a father in my chains,

Amplified Bible
I appeal to you for my [own spiritual] child Onesimus, whom I have fathered [in the faith] while a captive in these chains.

Christian Standard Bible
appeal to you for my son, Onesimus. I became his father while I was in chains.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
appeal to you for my son, Onesimus. I fathered him while I was in chains.

American Standard Version
I beseech thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
I beg of you concerning my son Onesimus, whom I begot in my bondage,

Contemporary English Version
I beg you to help Onesimus! He is like a son to me because I led him to Christ here in jail.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I beseech thee for my son, whom I have begotten in my bands, Onesimus,

English Revised Version
I beseech thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
appeal to you for my child Onesimus [Useful]. I became his spiritual father here in prison.

Good News Translation
So I make a request to you on behalf of Onesimus, who is my own son in Christ; for while in prison I have become his spiritual father.

International Standard Version
appeal to you on behalf of my child Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment.

Literal Standard Version
I beg you concerning my child—whom I begot in my bonds—Onesimus,

Majority Standard Bible
I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I became while I was in my chains.

New American Bible
I urge you on behalf of my child Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment,

NET Bible
I am appealing to you concerning my child, whose spiritual father I have become during my imprisonment, that is, Onesimus,

New Revised Standard Version
I am appealing to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment.

New Heart English Bible
I appeal to you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,

Webster's Bible Translation
I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

Weymouth New Testament
I entreat you on behalf of my own child whose father I have become while in my chains--I mean Onesimus.

World English Bible
I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have become the father of in my chains,

Young's Literal Translation
I entreat thee concerning my child -- whom I did beget in my bonds -- Onesimus,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Paul's Appeal for Onesimus
9I prefer to appeal on the basis of love. For I, Paul, am now aged, and a prisoner of Christ Jesus as well. 10I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I became while I was in chains. 11Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.…

Cross References
Romans 12:1
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

1 Corinthians 4:14
I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.

1 Corinthians 4:15
Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

Colossians 4:9
With him I am sending Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you about everything here.

Philemon 1:11
Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.

Philemon 1:13
I would have liked to keep him with me, so that on your behalf he could minister to me in my chains for the gospel.

3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.


Treasury of Scripture

I beseech you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

my son.

2 Samuel 9:1-7
And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake? …

2 Samuel 18:5
And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.

2 Samuel 19:37,38
Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee…

Onesimus.

Colossians 4:9
With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.

whom.

1 Corinthians 4:15
For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

Galatians 4:19
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

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Philemon 1
1. Paul rejoices to hear of the faith and love of Philemon,
8. whom he desires to forgive his servant Onesimus, and lovingly to receive him again.














(10) My son.--Properly, my own child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus. The name is withheld, till Philemon's interest is doubly engaged, for one who is the Apostle's "own child" (a name of endearment given elsewhere only to Timothy and Titus), and for one who was begotten under the hardships and hindrances of imprisonment. At last the name is given, and even then comes, in the same breath, the declaration of the change in him from past uselessness to present usefulness, both to the Apostle and to his former master.

Onesimus.--Of Onesimus we know absolutely nothing, except what we read here and in Colossians 4:9. Tradition, of course, is busy with his name, and makes him Bishop of Ber?a, in Macedonia, or identifies him with the Onesimus, Bishop of Ephesus, mentioned in the Ignatian Epistle to the Ephesians (Ephesians 1:2-6). The name was a common one, especially among slaves.

Verse 10. - I beseech thee for my son ... Onesimus; my child (Revised Version). The name of Onesimus could not have been a pleasing one in the ears of Philemon. Note with what caution and almost timidity it is at length introduced. He does not interpose for the ingrate with apostolic dignity, but pleads for him with fatherly love. He puts himself side by side with him, and calls him his son. Some of the old commentators conclude, from Colossians 4:9, that Onesimus was a native of Colossae, and thence discuss whether he could have been a slave born in Philemon's house of a slave-mother, or whether he was sold in his youth by his father - a custom so common to the Phrygians (as to the Circassians in later times) as to have been noticed by Cicero.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
I appeal
Παρακαλῶ (Parakalō)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 3870: From para and kaleo; to call near, i.e. Invite, invoke.

to you
σε (se)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

for
περὶ (peri)
Preposition
Strong's 4012: From the base of peran; properly, through, i.e. Around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time.

my
ἐμοῦ (emou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1699: My, mine. From the oblique cases of ego; my.

child
τέκνου (teknou)
Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular
Strong's 5043: A child, descendent, inhabitant. From the base of timoria; a child.

Onesimus,
Ὀνήσιμον (Onēsimon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3682: From oninemi; profitable; Onesimus, a Christian.

whose
ὃν (hon)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that.

father I became
ἐγέννησα (egennēsa)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1080: From a variation of genos; to procreate; figuratively, to regenerate.

[while I was] in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

chains.
δεσμοῖς (desmois)
Noun - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1199: Or desmos des-mos' neuter and masculine respectively from deo; a band, i.e. Ligament or shackle; figuratively, an impediment or disability.


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