Philemon 1:6
that the fellowship of your faith may become working in the full knowledge of every good thing that [is] in you toward Christ Jesus;
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In Context
5hearing of your love and faith that you have to the Lord Jesus and toward all the holy ones,
Cross References
Matthew 25:16And he who received the five talents, having gone, worked with them, and made five other talents;
2 Corinthians 9:12because the ministry of this service not only is supplying the wants of the holy ones, but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God,
Philippians 4:8As to the rest, brothers, as many things as are true, as many as [are] revered, as many as [are] righteous, as many as [are] pure, as many as [are] lovely, as many as [are] of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, think on these things;
Titus 3:14and let them learn—ours also—to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
James 2:14What [is] the profit, my brothers, if anyone may speak of having faith, but he may not have works? Is that faith able to save him?
1 Peter 1:5who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, to 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 →