Philemon 1:7
For we have much thanksgiving and encouragement over your love, because the affections of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother. 1 Paul's Plea for Onesimus
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In Context
8Therefore, having much boldness in Christ to command you what is fitting,
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:13Because of this we have been comforted. And in your comfort we rejoiced exceedingly more over the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
1 Thessalonians 2:13Because of this we also give thanks to God unceasingly, so that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you received not the word of men, but just as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you that believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:9For whatever thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we are rejoicing because of you in the presence of our God,
Philemon 1:20Yes, brother, may I have profit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in the Lord.
3 John 1:3For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and witnessed to the truth which is in you, just as you walk in truth.
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 →