Philemon 1:7
We are very thankful for the comfort we have received from yoʋr love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through yoʋ, brother.
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8Therefore, although I am bold enough in Christ to command yoʋ to do what is right,
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:13Therefore we have been comforted by your own comfort. And we rejoiced all the more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
1 Thessalonians 2:13We also give thanks to God without ceasing because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:9How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy we have in the presence of our God because of you?
Philemon 1:20Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from yoʋ in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.
3 John 1:3For I was overjoyed when the brothers came and testified about yoʋr faithfulness to the truth and how yoʋ walk in the 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 →