Philemon 1:3
Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
King James Version
In Context
2And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house:
4I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,
Cross References
Romans 1:7To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 1:2Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
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 →