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Onesimus is the person Paul calls “my child,” saying he became connected to Paul “in my imprisonment.” Paul describes him as once “useless” but now “useful” (Philemon 1:10–11).
10I beg you for my child, whom I have fathered in my bonds, Onesimus,
11who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me;