Philemon 1:6
(I have prayed) that there may be communication of thy faith (in) yielding fruits, in works and in the (manifestation of the) knowledge of all good which thou hast in Jeshu Meshiha.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
7For we have great joy and consolation, that by thy love the bowels of the saints are refreshed.
Cross References
Matthew 25:16But he who had received five talents went and traded with them, and gained five others.
2 Corinthians 9:12For, on account of the performance of this service, we not only supply the deficiency of the saints, but also cause many thanks givings to abound unto Aloha.
Philippians 4:8FINALLY, my brethren, those (things) which are true, and those which are honest, and those which are just, and those which are pure, and those which are lovely, and those which are laudable, and those (which are) works of praise and of celebration, these consider.
Titus 3:14And let those also who are of us, learn to perform good works in things which are necessary, that they may not be without fruits.
James 2:14WHAT is the use, my brethren, if a man say, I have faith, and works he hath not? How can his faith save him?
1 Peter 1:5while you are kept by the power of Aloha and through faith, unto the salvation which is prepared to be revealed in the last times;
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 →