Philemon 1:7
For I have had great joy and consolation in thy charity, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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2 Corinthians 7:13Before God: therefore we were comforted. But in our consolation, we did the more abundantly rejoice for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
1 Thessalonians 2:13Therefore, we also give thanks to God without ceasing: because, that when you had received of us the word of the hearing of God, you received it not as the word of men, but (as it is indeed) the word of God, who worketh in you that have believed.
1 Thessalonians 3:9For what thanks can we return to God for you, in all the joy wherewith we rejoice for you before our God,
Philemon 1:20Yea, brother. May I enjoy thee in the Lord. Refresh my bowels in the Lord.
3 John 1:3I was exceedingly glad when the brethren came and gave testimony to the truth in thee, even as thou walkest 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 →