Philemon 1:7
For we haue great ioy and consolation in thy loue, because by thee, brother, the Saintes bowels are comforted.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
8Wherefore, though I bee very bolde in Christ to commaund thee that which is conuenient,
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:13Therefore we were comforted, because ye were comforted: but rather we reioyced much more for the ioye of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
1 Thessalonians 2:13For this cause also thanke we God without ceasing, that when ye receiued the worde of God, which ye heard of vs, ye receiued it not as the worde of men, but as it is in deede the worde of God, which also worketh in you that beleeue.
1 Thessalonians 3:9For what thankes can wee recompense to God againe for you, for all the ioy wherewith we reioyce for your sakes before our God,
Philemon 1:20Yea, brother, let mee obteine this pleasure of thee in the Lord: comfort my bowels in the Lord.
3 John 1:3For I reioyced greatly when the brethren came, and testified of the trueth that is in thee, how thou walkest in the trueth.
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 →