Philemon 1:7
For I have found great joy and consolation in your charity, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.
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In Context
8Because of this, I have enough confidence in Christ Jesus to command you concerning certain things,
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:13Therefore, we have been consoled. But in our consolation, we have rejoiced even more abundantly over the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by all of you.
1 Thessalonians 2:13For this reason also, we give thanks to God without ceasing: because, when you had accepted from us the Word of the hearing of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but (as it truly is) as the Word of God, who is working in you who have believed.
1 Thessalonians 3:9For what thanks would we be able to repay to God because of you, for all the joy with which we rejoice over you before our God?
Philemon 1:20So it is, brother. May I delight with you in the Lord! Refresh my heart in Christ.
3 John 1:3I was very glad when the brothers arrived, and when they offered testimony to the truth in you, that you are walking 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 →