Philemon 1:7
For we have great joy and consolation, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thy love.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
8Therefore I might have great freedom In the Messiah, to enjoin upon thee the things that are right.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:13Wherefore we were comforted; and with our consolation, we were the more joyful for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all:
1 Thessalonians 2:13Therefore also we give thanks unceasingly to God, that the word of God which ye received from us, ye did not receive as the word of men, but as being truly the word of God, which worketh efficiently in you and in them that believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:9For what thanks can we render to God in your behalf, for all the joy with which we are joyful on your account;
Philemon 1:20Yes, my brother, let me be refreshed by thee in our Lord: refresh thou my bowels in the Messiah.
3 John 1:3For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified concerning thy integrity, even as thou walkest in the 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 →