Philemon 1:21
Because I am thoroughly persuaded of your obedience, I have written you, knowing full well that you will do by me what I am asking.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
20Come my brother, let me have joy in the Lord because of you! Refresh my heart in Christ!
22Please also prepare for me a lodging, for I am hoping by your prayers to be restored to you again.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 2:3And for this very reason I wrote you, that I might not come only to be grieved by those who ought to give me joy; and because I trusted in you all, that my joy is the joy of all of you.
2 Corinthians 8:22With them I am sending our brother of whose zeal I have often had proof in many ways, and who is now zealous because of his great confidence in you.
2 Thessalonians 3:4Now we have fully fixed our faith on you in the Lord, that you are doing and will continue to do what we enjoin.
Matthew Henry on Philemon 1:9-25
The Apostle's Plea for Onesimus; Salutations. ( a. d. 62.) 8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, 9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: 11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: 12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels: 13… Read the whole commentary →