Philemon 1:6
That the communication of thy faith may be made evident in the acknowledgment of every good work, that is in you in Christ Jesus.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
5Hearing of thy charity and faith, which thou hast in the Lord Jesus, and towards all the saints:
Cross References
Matthew 25:16And he that had received the five talents, went his way, and traded with the same, and gained other five.
2 Corinthians 9:12Because the administration of this office doth not only supply the want of the saints, but aboundeth also by many thanksgivings in the Lord,
Philippians 4:8For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline, think on these things.
Titus 3:14And let our men also learn to excel in good works for necessary uses: that they be not unfruitful.
James 2:14What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him?
1 Peter 1:5Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.
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 →