Philemon 1:3
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
In Context
2and to the beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the congregation at thy house:
4I thank my God, making recollection of thee always in my prayers,
Cross References
Romans 1:7To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, to the called, to the sanctified: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 1:2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.
Matthew Henry on Philemon 1:2-8
Completed by Jeremiah Smith . This epistle to Philemon is placed the last of those with the name of Paul to them, perhaps because the shortest, and of an argument peculiar and different from all the others; yet such as the Spirit of God, who indited it, saw would, in its kind, be very instructive and useful in the churches. The occasion of it was this:—Philemon, one of note and probably a minister in the church of Colosse, a city of Phrygia, had a servant named Onesimus, who, having purloined his goods, ran away… Read the whole commentary →