20. let me--"me" is emphatic: "Let me have profit (so Greek 'for joy,' onainen, referring to the name Onesimus, 'profitable') from thee, as thou shouldst have had from Onesimus"; for "thou owest thine ownself to me."
      in the Lord--not in worldly gain, but in thine increase in the graces of the Lord's Spirit [ALFORD].
      my bowels--my heart. Gratify my feelings by granting this request.
      in the Lord--The oldest manuscripts read, "in Christ," the element or sphere in which this act of Christian love naturally ought to have place.

JFB.