Philemon 1:5
Behold, from (the time) when I heard of thy faith, and the love which thou hast to our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, and to all the saints,
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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 give thanks to Aloha at all time, and remember thee in my prayers.
Cross References
Romans 12:13distributing to the necessity of the saints. Be kind to strangers.
1 Corinthians 16:1BUT concerning what is collected for the saints, as I have instructed the churches of Galatia, so also do you.
Ephesians 1:15ON account of this, behold, I also, since I heard of your faith in our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, and your love to all the saints,
Philemon 1:7For we have great joy and consolation, that by thy love the bowels of the saints are refreshed.
1 John 5:1WHOSOEVER believeth that Jeshu is the Meshiha of Aloha is born. And every one who loveth the Generator loveth also him who is generated 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 →