Philemon 1:20
Yes, brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: refresh my heart in the Lord.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.
In Context
21Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:4Great is my plainness of speech to you, great is my boasting of you; I am filled with comfort, I am exceedingly joyful in all our affliction.
Philippians 1:8For God is my witness how ardently I love you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:1So, then, my brethren, beloved and ardently desired, my joy and my crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.
1 Thessalonians 3:7for this reason we are comforted concerning you, brethren, in all our distress and affliction, by your faith:
Philemon 1:12I send him back, and do you receive him, that is, my son.
1 John 3:17Whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother have need, and shuts his heart against him, how dwells the love of God in him?
Matthew Henry on Philemon 1:9-25
The Apostle's Plea for Onesimus; Salutations. ( a. d. 62.) 8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, 9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: 11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: 12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels: 13… Read the whole commentary →