Philemon 1:6
That the fellowship of thy faith may bee made effectuall, and that whatsoeuer good thing is in you through Christ Iesus, may be knowen.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
5(When I heare of thy loue and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Iesus, and towarde all Saintes)
Cross References
Matthew 25:16Then he that had receiued the fiue talents, went and occupied with them, and gained other fiue talents.
2 Corinthians 9:12For the ministration of this seruice not onely supplieth the necessities of the Saintes, but also aboundantly causeth many to giue thankes to God,
Philippians 4:8Furthermore, brethre, whatsoeuer things are true, whatsoeuer things are honest, whatsoeuer thinges are iust, whatsoeuer thinges are pure, whatsoeuer thinges are worthie loue, whatsoeuer things are of good report, if there be any vertue, or if there be any praise, thinke on these things,
Titus 3:14And let ours also learne to shewe foorth good woorkes for necessary vses, that they be not vnfruitfull.
James 2:14What auaileth it, my brethren, though a man saith he hath faith, when he hath no workes? can that faith saue him?
1 Peter 1:5Which are kept by the power of God through faith vnto saluation, which is prepared to be shewed in the last time.
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 →