Having received in God your much-beloved name, which you possess by a righteous nature according to faith and love in Christ Jesus our Savior, you, as imitators of God, rekindled your brotherly work in the blood of God and brought it to perfect completion.
For when you heard that I was being led in chains from Syria for the sake of our common Name and hope, hoping through your prayer to succeed in fighting with wild beasts in Rome, so that through succeeding I might be able to be a disciple, you were eager to see me.
Since, then, in the name of God I received your whole multitude in Onesimus, a man of inexpressible love and your bishop, I pray that you love him according to Jesus Christ and that all of you be like him. For blessed is the one who graciously granted you, being worthy, to possess such a bishop.