Philemon 1:3
Grace to you, and peace from God our father, and the Lorde Iesus Christ.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
In Context
2And to the beloued Apphia, and to Archippus our felowe souldier, and to the Churche in thy house:
4I thanke my God, makyng mention alwayes of thee in my prayers,
Cross References
Romans 1:7To all that be in Rome, beloued of God, saintes by callyng, grace to you, and peace, from God our father, and the Lorde Iesus Christe.
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 →