Philemon 1:7

for we have much joy and comfort in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

In Context

6that the fellowship of thy faith may become working in the full knowledge of every good thing that [is] in you toward Christ Jesus;

8Wherefore, having in Christ much boldness to command thee that which is fit —

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 7:13because of this we have been comforted in your comfort, and more abundantly the more did we rejoice in the joy of Titus, that his spirit hath been refreshed from you all;

1 Thessalonians 2:13Because of this also, we — we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;

1 Thessalonians 3:9for what thanks are we able to recompense to God for you, for all the joy with which we do joy because of you in the presence of our God?

Philemon 1:20Yes, brother, may I have profit of thee in the Lord; refresh my bowels in the Lord;

3 John 1:3for I rejoiced exceedingly, brethren coming and testifying of the truth in thee, even as thou in truth dost walk;

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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