Philemon 1:5
Hearing of thy charity and faith, which thou hast in the Lord Jesus, and towards all the saints:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;
In Context
4I give thanks to my God, always making a remembrance of thee in my prayers.
Cross References
Psalms 16:3To the saints, who are in his land, he hath made wonderful all my desires in them.
Romans 12:13Communicating to the necessities of the saints. Pursuing hospitality.
1 Corinthians 16:1Now concerning the collections that are made for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, so do ye also.
Ephesians 1:15Wherefore I also, hearing of your faith that is in the Lord Jesus, and of your love towards all the saints,
Philemon 1:7For I have had great joy and consolation in thy charity, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother.
1 John 5:1Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him.
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 →