Philemon 1:5
hearing of thy love and faith that thou hast unto the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;
In Context
4I give thanks to my God, always making mention of thee in my prayers,
Cross References
Psalms 16:3For the holy ones who [are] in the land, And the honourable, all my delight [is] in them.
Romans 12:13to the necessities of the saints communicating; the hospitality pursuing.
1 Corinthians 16:1And concerning the collection that [is] for the saints, as I directed to the assemblies of Galatia, so also ye — do ye;
Ephesians 1:15Because of this I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and the love to all the saints,
Philemon 1:7for we have much joy and comfort in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.
1 John 5:1Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:
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 →