Philemon 1:21
Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
20Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.
22Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 2:3And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be shared by all of you.
2 Corinthians 8:22We have sent with them our brother whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.
2 Thessalonians 3:4We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.
Matthew Henry on Philemon 1:9-25
The Apostle's Plea for Onesimus; Salutations. ( a. d. 62.) 8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, 9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: 11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: 12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels: 13… Read the whole commentary →