Philemon 1:3
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Philemon's Love and Faith
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
In Context
2to Apphia the beloved, and to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church at your house:
4I thank my God, always making mention of you in my prayers,
Cross References
Romans 1:7To all those who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Paul's Longing to Visit Rome
Ephesians 1:2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Spiritual Blessings in Christ
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 →