7 For we have great joy and consolation in your love, (o. agape) because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by you, brother.

8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to admonish you that which is convenient,

9 Yet for love's (o. agape) sake I rather plead to you, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.