Philemon 1:7
For we have great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
8Therefore, though I could be bold in Christ and order you that which is proper,
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:13Therefore we are comforted. And besides our comfort, we especially rejoiced at the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
1 Thessalonians 2:13For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which performs its work in you who believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:9For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy which we have before our God because of you;
Philemon 1:20Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord: refresh my heart in Christ.
3 John 1:3For I rejoiced greatly, when some brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you, how you walk 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 →