Philemon 1:2
to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church that meets at your house:
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house:
In Context
1Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker,
3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Cross References
Romans 16:5Greet also the church that meets at their house. Greet my beloved Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.
Philippians 2:25But I thought it necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my needs.
Colossians 4:17Tell Archippus: “See to it that you complete the ministry you have received in the Lord.”
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 →