The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Philemon is a personal letter in which the apostle beseeches Philemon to take back a runaway slave, Onesimus. The slave had come to Rome, where Paul was being held prisoner, and there had been converted by Paul.

Philemon 1

1:7 For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.