Philemon 1:5
hearing of your love and your faith, which you have in the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints,
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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 mention of you always in my prayers,
Cross References
Romans 12:13administer to the necessities of the saints; be careful to entertain strangers;
1 Corinthians 16:1As it respects the collection which is for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so also do you.
Ephesians 1:15For this reason I also, since I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and your love to all the saints,
Philemon 1:7For we have great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.
1 John 5:1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ, has been begotten of God: and every one that loves him that begot, loves him also that is begotten of 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 →