Philemon 1:7
For we have great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
8Wherefore, though I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do that which is becoming,
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:13For this reason, we have been comforted by means of your comfort: and we rejoiced exceedingly more indeed, on account of the joy of Titus, for his spirit was refreshed by you all.
1 Thessalonians 2:13For this reason, also, we thank God without ceasing; because, when you received the word of God, as preached by us, you embraced it, not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually works in you that believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:9For what thanks can we render to God for you, for the great joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God,
Philemon 1:20Yes, brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: refresh my heart in the Lord.
3 John 1:3For I rejoiced greatly when the brethren came and testified to the truth that is in you, even as you walk in the 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 →