Philemon 1:7
for we have much joy and comfort in thy love, because by thee, dear brother, the bowels of the saints are refreshed.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
8Wherefore though I have sufficient authority in Christ to enjoin thee what is meet,
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:13We were therefore comforted by your consolation; and rejoiced the more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all;
1 Thessalonians 2:13For this also we thank God continually, that when ye received the word of God, which ye heard from us, ye received it not as the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the word of God, which also worketh effectually in you that believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:9For what thanks can we render to God concerning you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on your account before our God,
Philemon 1:20Yea, my brother, let me enjoy this satisfaction from thee in the Lord: and thus refresh my bowels in the Lord.
3 John 1:3For I greatly rejoiced, when the brethren came, and bore testimony to thy truth, even as thou walkest in 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 →