Philemon 1:7
For we have great thankfulness and encouragement through thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
8Wherefore having much boldness in Christ to enjoin thee what is fitting,
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:13For this reason we have been encouraged. And we the rather rejoiced in our encouragement more abundantly by reason of the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
1 Thessalonians 2:13And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received [the] word of [the] report of God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's word, which also works in you who believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:9For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on account of you before our God,
Philemon 1:20Yea, brother, *I* would have profit of *thee* in [the] Lord: refresh my bowels in Christ.
3 John 1:3For I rejoiced exceedingly when [the] brethren came and bore testimony to thy [holding fast the] truth, even as *thou* walkest in 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 →