Philemon 1:5
lo, from the time that I heard of thy faith, and of the love thou hast towards our Lord Jesus, and towards all the saints;
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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, and remember thee in my prayers,
Cross References
Romans 12:13Be communicators to the wants of the saints. Be kind to strangers.
1 Corinthians 16:1And as to the collection for the saints, as I directed the churches of the Galatians, so do ye.
Ephesians 1:15Therefore, lo I also, since I heard of your faith in our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and of your love towards all the saints,
Philemon 1:7For we have great joy and consolation, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thy love.
1 John 5:1Whoever believeth that Jesus is the Messiah, is born of God. And whoever loveth the begetter, loveth him also that is begotten of 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 →