Philemon 1:3
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
In Context
2and to sister Apphia, and Archippus our fellow-soldier, and the church in your house.
4I give thanks to my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,
Cross References
Romans 1:7to all the beloved of God who are in Rome, saints having been called. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 1:2Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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 →