Philemon 1:3
May grace be granted to you all, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
In Context
2and to our sister Apphia and our comrade Archippus--as well as to the Church in your house.
4I give continual thanks to my God while making mention of you, my brother, in my prayers,
Cross References
Romans 1:7To all God's loved ones who are in Rome, called to be saints. May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 1:2May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and 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 →