Philemon 1:6
that your participation in the faith may be active in the acknowledgment of every good thing that is in us, to the honor of Christ Jesus.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
5hearing of your love and your faith, which you have in the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints,
Cross References
Matthew 25:16Then he that had received the five talents, went and traded with them, and made other five talents.
2 Corinthians 9:12because the administration of this service not only supplies the wants of the saints, but also abounds in many thanksgivings to God;
Philippians 4:8Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue, or any praise, think of these things.
Titus 3:14Let our people also learn to practice good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
James 2:14What profit is there, my brethren, if any one say he has faith, and have not works? Can faith save him?
1 Peter 1:5who are kept secure by the power of God through faith, to a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time:
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 →