Philemon 1:7
For we have great joy and consolation, that by thy love the bowels of the saints are refreshed.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
8Wherefore I have great confidence in the Meshiha to command thee those acts which are righteous,
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:13For this cause we were consoled, and with our consolation more abundantly did we rejoice in the joy of Titos; because his spirit had been refreshed with you all.
1 Thessalonians 2:13WHEREFORE we also give thanks constantly unto Aloha, that the word of Aloha which you received from us, was not as the word of man (that) you received (it), but, as it is truly, the word of Aloha, which in operation worketh (alike) in you and in all them who believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:9For what thanks giving can we render on account of you to Aloha, over all the joy with which we rejoice on your behalf,
Philemon 1:20Yes, my brother, I will be refreshed by thee in our Lord; refresh my bowels in the Meshiha.
3 John 1:3For I have rejoiced greatly when the brethren have come, and have testified concerning thy integrity, even as in the truth thou walkest.
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 →