Philemon 1:4
I thank my God, making mention of you always in my prayers,
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,
In Context
3grace be to you all, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
5hearing of your love and your faith, which you have in the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints,
Cross References
Ephesians 1:16do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
Colossians 1:3We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
2 Thessalonians 1:3We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all toward each other abounds:
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 →