Philemon 1:7
For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
8Wherefore, though I have in Christ great liberty to enjoin thee what is becoming,
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:13Therefore we were comforted in your consolation; and exceeding abundantly the more rejoiced we in the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
1 Thessalonians 2:13For this cause do we also give thanks to God unceasingly, because when ye received the word reported by us from God, ye received it not as the word of man, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which worketh also effectually in you that believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:9For what sufficient thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God,
Philemon 1:20Yea, brother, I wish to have joy in thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.
3 John 1:3I rejoiced greatly when the brethren came, and bore witness to thy truth, even as thou walkest in the truth.
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 →