Philemon 1:7
yes, we have much thanksgiving and encouragement because of your (sg) love, in that the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
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In Context
8Now then, though I have all boldness in Christ to order you (sg) to do what is right,
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:13We have been encouraged by all this. Because of your encouragement, we rejoiced all the more over the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
1 Thessalonians 2:13Another reason we give thanks to God continually is that when you received from us the spoken Word of God, you welcomed it not as the word of men but, as it actually is, the Word of God, which is indeed operative in you who believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:9With what thankfulness can we repay God for you, for all the joy with which we are rejoicing in the presence of our God because of you;
Philemon 1:20Yes brother, let me have this benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in the Lord.
3 John 1:3Because it gave me great joy when some brothers came and testified to the truth about you, how you are walking 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 →