Philemon 1:3
Grace be with you, and peace from God our father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
In Context
2and to our beloved Apphia, and to Archippus a laborer with us, and to the church in thy house.
4I thank my God always, and remember thee in my prayers,
Cross References
Romans 1:7to all those who are at Rome, beloved of God, called and sanctified: Peace and grace be with you, from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Messiah.
Ephesians 1:2Peace be with you, and grace from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
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 →