Philemon 1:21

Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.

In Context

20Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.

22In the meantime, prepare a guest room for me, because I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 2:3I wrote to you as I did so that on my arrival I would not be grieved by those who ought to make me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would share my joy.

2 Corinthians 8:22And we are sending along with them our brother who has proven his earnestness to us many times and in many ways, and now even more so by his great confidence in you.

2 Thessalonians 3:4And we have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do what we command you.

Matthew Henry on Philemon 1:9-25

The Apostle's Plea for Onesimus; Salutations. ( a. d. 62.) 8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, 9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: 11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: 12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels: 13… Read the whole commentary →

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