Philemon 1:7
For I have found great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of God's people have been, and are, refreshed through you, my brother.
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2 Corinthians 7:13For this reason we feel comforted; and--in addition to this our comfort--we have been filled with all the deeper joy at Titus's joy, because his spirit has been set at rest by you all.
1 Thessalonians 2:13And for this further reason we render unceasing thanks to God, that when you received God's Message from our lips, it was as no mere message from men that you embraced it, but as--what it really is--God's Message, which also does its work in the hearts of you who believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:9For what thanksgiving on your behalf can we possibly offer to God in return for all the joy which fills our souls before our God for you,
Philemon 1:20Yes, brother, do me this favour for the Lord's sake. Refresh my heart in Christ.
3 John 1:3For it is an intense joy to me when brethren come and bear witness to your fidelity to the truth--that you live in obedience to 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 →