Philemon 1:6
that the sharing of your faith may become effective in full knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
5hearing of your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints,
Cross References
Matthew 25:16Then the one receiving the five talents went and traded with them, and made five other talents.
2 Corinthians 9:12Because the ministry of this service not only is supplying the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God,
Philippians 4:8Finally, brothers, as many things as are true, as many as are honorable, as many as are just, as many as are pure, as many as are pleasing, as many as are lovely—if there is any virtue and if there is any praise—meditate on these things.
James 2:14What does it profit, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Is that kind of faith able to save him?
1 Peter 1:5who by the power of God are being guarded through faith for the salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
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 →