Philemon 1:7
We take great joy and encouragement in your love, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints.
Majority Standard Bible
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In Context
8So although in Christ I am bold enough to order you to do what is proper,
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:13On account of this, we are encouraged. And in your encouragement, we were even more delighted by the joy of Titus. For his spirit has been refreshed by all of you.
1 Thessalonians 2:13And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as the true word of God—the word which is now at work in you who believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:9How can we adequately thank God for you in return for our great joy over you in His presence?
Philemon 1:20Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.
3 John 1:3For I was overjoyed when the brothers came and testified about your devotion to the truth, in which you continue to walk.
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 →