Philemon 1:5
hearing of thy love and faith, which thou have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the sanctified,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;
In Context
4I thank my God, making recollection of thee always in my prayers,
Cross References
Psalms 16:3As for the sanctified who are in the earth, they are the excellent in whom is all my delight.
Romans 12:13sharing for the needs of the sanctified, pursuing love for strangers.
1 Corinthians 16:1Now concerning the collection for the sanctified, as I arranged for the congregations of Galatia, so also do ye.
Ephesians 1:15Because of this I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love for all the sanctified,
Philemon 1:7For we have much joy and encouragement in thy love, because the bowels of the sanctified have been refreshed by thee, brother.
1 John 5:1Every man who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten from God, and every man who loves him who begot, also loves him who has been begotten from him.
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 →