Philemon 1:4
I give thanks to my God, always making mention of yoʋ in my prayers,
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,
In Context
3Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
5because I hear of yoʋr love for all the saints and the faith that yoʋ have toward the Lord Jesus.
Cross References
Ephesians 1:16I have not ceased giving thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers.
Colossians 1:3We always give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ when we pray for you,
2 Thessalonians 1:3We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly increasing and the love that each of you has for one another is abounding.
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 →