Philemon 1:3

grace be to you, and (the) peace of God our Father, and of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

In Context

2and to Apphia, most dear sister, and to Archippus, our even-knight (or our fellow soldier), and to the church that is in thine house,

4I do thankings to my God, (for)evermore making mind of thee, in my prayers, (I give thanks to my God, always remembering thee, in my prayers,)

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Cross References

Romans 1:7to all that be at Rome, darlings [or the (be) loved] of God, and called holy, grace [be] to you, and (the) peace of God our Father, and of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 1:2grace be to you and (the) peace of God, our Father, and of our 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 →

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