Philemon 1:7
And we have great ioye and consolacion over thy love: for by the (brother) the saynctes hertes are comforted.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
8Wherfore though I be bolde in Christ to enioyne the that which becometh the:
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:13Therfore we are comforted because ye are comforted: yee and excedyngly the moare ioyed we for the ioye that Titus had: because his sprete was refresshed of you all.
1 Thessalonians 2:13For this cause thanke we god with out ceasynge because that when ye receaved of vs the worde wherwith God was preached ye receaved it not as the worde of man: but even as it was in dede the worde of God which worketh in you that beleve.
1 Thessalonians 3:9For what thankes can we recompence to god agayne for you over all the ioye that we ioye for youre sakes before oure god
Philemon 1:20Even so brother let me enioye the in the Lorde. Comforte my bowels in the Lorde.
3 John 1:3I reioysed greatly when the brethren came and testified of the trueth that is in the how thou walkest in trouthe.
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 →