Philemon 1:5
(When I heare of thy loue and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Iesus, and towarde all Saintes)
Geneva Bible 1599
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 giue thanks to my God, making mention alwaies of thee in my praiers,
Cross References
Psalms 16:3But to the Saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent: all my delite is in them.
Romans 12:13Distributing vnto the necessities of the Saintes: giuing your selues to hospitalitie.
1 Corinthians 16:1Concerning the gathering for the Saintes, as I haue ordeined in the Churches of Galatia, so doe ye also.
Ephesians 1:15Therefore also after that I heard of the faith, which ye haue in the Lord Iesus, and loue toward all the Saints,
Philemon 1:7For we haue great ioy and consolation in thy loue, because by thee, brother, the Saintes bowels are comforted.
1 John 5:1Whosoeuer beleeueth that Iesus is that Christ, is borne of God: and euery one that loueth him, which begate, loueth him also which is begotten 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 →