Philemon 1:5
hearing of thy love and faith which thou hast towards the Lord Jesus, and unto all the saints;
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
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 thank my God always, making mention of thee in my prayers,
Cross References
Romans 12:13communicating to the wants of the saints; prompt to hospitality.
1 Corinthians 16:1NOW concerning the collection which is for the saints, as I have given an order to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye.
Ephesians 1:15For this cause I also, since I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and the love ye have to all saints,
Philemon 1:7For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother.
1 John 5:1EVERY one who believeth that Jesus is the Messiah, is born of God; and every one who loveth him that begat, loveth him also who is begotten by 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 →