Philemon 1:3

Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

In Context

2And to Appia, our dearest sister, and to Archippus, our fellow soldier, and to the church which is in thy house:

4I give thanks to my God, always making a remembrance of thee in my prayers.

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Cross References

Romans 1:7To all that are at Rome, the beloved of God, called to be saints. Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 1:2Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

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 →

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