Philemon 1:7

For we haue great ioy & consolation in thy loue, because the bowels of the saintes are refresshed by thee, brother.

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For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

In Context

6That the felowshippe of thy fayth may be effectuall in the knowledge of euery good [worke] which is in you, towarde Christe Iesus.

8Wherfore, though I myght be much bolde in Christe, to inioyne thee that which is conuenient:

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Cross References

Philemon 1:20Yea brother, let me enioy this pleasure of thee in the Lorde: Comfort my bowels in the Lorde.

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 →

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