Philemon 1:7
For I have great joy and comfort in your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
8And so, although I might be bold in Christ to dictate to you what is fitting,
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:13This is what comforts me. In addition to this comfort of mine, I have been made still happier by the happiness of Titus; because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
1 Thessalonians 2:13For this reason also I am giving continual thanks to God, because when you heard from me the spoken word of God, you received it not as the word of men, but as the word of God (which in truth it is), who himself is effectually at work in you believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:9For what thanksgiving can I render again to God in your behalf, in return for all the joy which you cause me in the presence of my God?
Philemon 1:20Come my brother, let me have joy in the Lord because of you! Refresh my heart in Christ!
3 John 1:3For I was glad when brothers came and bore testimony to your truth, as indeed you are passing your life in 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 →