Philemon 1:3
Grace to you (pl) and peace from God our Father and Sovereign Jesus Christ.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
In Context
4I always thank my God as I make mention of you (sg) in my prayers,
Cross References
Romans 1:7to all the called saints who are in Rome, beloved of God: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Sovereign Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 1:2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Sovereign Jesus 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 →