Philemon 1:5
Hearyng of thy loue and fayth, which thou hast towarde the Lorde Iesus, and towarde all saintes:
Bible (Bishops')
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 thanke my God, makyng mention alwayes of thee in my prayers,
Cross References
Romans 12:13Distributyng to ye necessitie of saintes, geuen to hospitalitie.
Philemon 1:7For we haue great ioy & consolation in thy loue, because the bowels of the saintes are refresshed by thee, brother.
1 John 5:1Whosoeuer beleueth that Iesus is Christe, is borne of God: And euerie one that loueth him which begat, loueth hym also which is begotten of hym.
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 →