Philemon 1:6
that there may be a fellowship of thy faith, yielding fruits in works, and in the knowledge of all the good things ye possess in Jesus the Messiah.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
7For we have great joy and consolation, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thy love.
Cross References
Matthew 25:16Then he that received five talents, went and traded with them, and gained five more.
2 Corinthians 9:12For the performance of this ministration, not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is also rich in many thanksgivings to God.
Philippians 4:8Finally, my brethren, what things are true, and what things are decorous, and what things are right, and what things are pure, and what things are lovely, and what things are commendable, and deeds of praise and approbation, on these be your thoughts.
Titus 3:14And let our people learn also to perform good works, on occasions of emergency, that they may not be unfruitful.
James 2:14What is the use, my brethren, if a man say, I have faith; and he hath no works? can his faith vivify him?
1 Peter 1:5while ye are kept, by the power of God and by faith, for the life that is prepared and will be revealed in the last times;
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 →