Philemon 1:7
For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.
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8And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:13So we have been comforted: and we had the greater joy in our comfort because of the joy of Titus, for his spirit had been made glad by you all.
1 Thessalonians 2:13And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.
1 Thessalonians 3:9For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God;
Philemon 1:20So brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: give new life to my heart in Christ.
3 John 1:3For it gave me great joy when some of the brothers came and gave witness that you had the true faith and were walking in the true way.
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 →