Philemon 1:20
Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord: refresh my heart in Christ.
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.
In Context
21Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:4Great is my confidence in you, great is my pride in you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation.
Philippians 1:8For God is my witness, how greatly I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 4:1Therefore, my brethren, whom I dearly love and long for, my joy and crown, in this way stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.
1 Thessalonians 3:7Therefore, brethren, in the midst of our affliction and distress, we were comforted about you because of your faith:
Philemon 1:12I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart,
1 John 3:17But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?
Matthew Henry on Philemon 1:9-25
The Apostle's Plea for Onesimus; Salutations. ( a. d. 62.) 8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, 9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: 11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: 12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels: 13… Read the whole commentary →