Philemon 1:7
For we have much joy and encouragement in thy love, because the bowels of the sanctified have been refreshed by thee, brother.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8Therefore, though I have much boldness in Christ to command thee that which is befitting,
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:13Because of this we have been encouraged. And from your encouragement, we rejoiced to a greater degree more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
1 Thessalonians 2:13And because of this we thank God without ceasing, because, having received the word of God heard from us, ye received not the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:9For what thanks can we repay God about you, for all the joy in which we rejoiced because of you before our God,
Philemon 1:20Yes, brother, let me have a favor of thee in Lord. Refresh my bowels in Lord.
3 John 1:3For I rejoiced exceedingly of brothers coming and testifing to the truth of thee, just as thou walk in truth.
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 →