Philemon 1:3

May grace be to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

In Context

2and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church that meets in your home.

4I always thank my God. I mention you in my prayers.

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Cross References

Romans 1:7This letter is to all who are in Rome, the beloved of God, who are called to be holy people. May grace be to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 1:2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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 →

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