Philemon 1:6
in order that the fellowship of your faith may be efficient in the perfect knowledge of every good thing which is in you toward Christ.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
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Matthew 25:16The one having received the five talents going immediately, operated with the same, and made other five talents.
2 Corinthians 9:12Because the ministry of this free-will offering is not only supplying the deficiencies of the saints, but also superabounding through much thanksgiving to God;
Philippians 4:8Finally, brethren, so many things as are true, so many things as are noble, so many things as are righteous, so many things as are pure, so many things as are lovely, so many things as are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think on these things.
Titus 3:14And let our people indeed learn to excel in good works for necessary uses, in order that they may not be unfruitful.
James 2:14But what is it profitable, my brethren, if one may say he has faith, but has not works? whether is faith able to save him?
1 Peter 1:5who are preserved by the power of God through faith unto the salvation ready to be revealed 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 →