Philemon 1:7

for we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the yearnings of the holy ones have been refreshed through you, brother.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

In Context

6that the fellowship of your faith may become working in the full knowledge of every good thing that [is] in you toward Christ Jesus;

8For this reason, having in Christ much boldness to command you that which is fit—

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 7:13because of this we have been comforted in your comfort, and more abundantly the more we rejoiced in the joy of Titus, that his spirit has been refreshed from you all;

1 Thessalonians 2:13And because of this we also continually give thanks to God, that, having received the word of God [by] your hearing from us, you accepted, not the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, who also works in you who believe;

1 Thessalonians 3:9For what thanks are we able to repay to God for you, for all the joy with which we delight because of you in the presence of our God,

Philemon 1:20Yes, brother, may I have profit of you in the LORD; refresh my yearnings in the LORD;

3 John 1:3for I rejoiced exceedingly, brothers coming and testifying of the truth in you, even 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 →

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