Philemon 1:5
when I heare of thy love and fayth which thou hast towarde the Lorde Iesu and towarde all saynctes:
Tyndale New Testament
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 thake my God makinge mencio all wayes of the in my prayers
Cross References
Romans 12:13Distribute vnto the necessite of the saynctes and diligently to harboure.
1 Corinthians 16:1Of the gadderynge for the saynctes as I have ordeyned in the congregacions of Galacia even so do ye.
Ephesians 1:15Wherfore even I (after that I hearde of the fayth which ye have in the lorde Iesu and love vnto all the saynctes)
Philemon 1:7And we have great ioye and consolacion over thy love: for by the (brother) the saynctes hertes are comforted.
1 John 5:1Whosoever beleveth that Iesus is Christ is borne of god. And every one that loveth him which begat loveth him also which was begotte 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 →