Philemon 1:8
Therefore I might have great freedom In the Messiah, to enjoin upon thee the things that are right.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,
In Context
7For we have great joy and consolation, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thy love.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 10:1Now I, Paul, beseech you, by the mildness and gentleness of the Messiah, although I am mild towards you when present, but bold towards you when absent!
2 Corinthians 11:21I speak as if under contempt: I speak as if we were impotent, through deficiency of understanding; that in whatever thing any one is presuming, I also am presuming.
1 Thessalonians 2:2but we first suffered and were treated with indignity, as ye know, at Philippi; and then, in a great agony, with confidence in our God, we addressed to you the gospel of 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 →