Philemon 1:6
That the faith which you have in common with them may be working with power, in the knowledge of every good thing in you, for Christ.
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In Context
5Hearing of the love and the faith which you have to the Lord Jesus and to all the saints;
Cross References
Matthew 25:16Straight away he who had been given the five talents went and did trade with them, and made five more.
2 Corinthians 9:12For this work of giving not only takes care of the needs of the saints, but is the cause of much praise to God;
Philippians 4:8For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.
Titus 3:14And let our people go on with good works for necessary purposes, so that they may not be without fruit.
James 2:14What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say that he has faith, if he does nothing? will such a faith give him salvation?
1 Peter 1:5Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.
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 →