Philemon 1:5
because I hear about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;
In Context
4I always thank my God, remembering you in my prayers,
Cross References
Psalms 16:3As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.
Romans 12:13Share with the saints who are in need. Practice hospitality.
1 Corinthians 16:1Now about the collection for the saints, you are to do as I directed the churches of Galatia:
Ephesians 1:15For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
Philemon 1:7We take great joy and encouragement in your love, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints.
1 John 5:1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.
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 →