11 once unserviceable to thee, but now serviceable to thee and to me:
Luke alone is with me. Take Mark, and bring [him] with thyself, for he is serviceable to me for ministry.
But it was right to make merry and rejoice, because this thy brother was dead and has come to life again, and was lost and has been found.
All have gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is not one that practises goodness, there is not so much as one:
who once [were] not a people, but now God's people; who were not enjoying mercy, but now have found mercy.
And cast out the useless bondman into the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
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Commentary on Philemon 1 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 1
In this epistle we have,
Phm 1:1-7
Phm 1:8-25
We have here,
Amen is added, not only for strong and affectionate summing up the prayer and wish, so let it be; but as an expression of faith that it will be heard, so shall it be. And what need we more to make us happy than to have the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with our spirit? This is the usual benediction, but it may be taken here to have some special respect also to the occasion; the grace of Christ with their spirits, Philemon's especially, would sweeten and mollify them, take off too deep and keen resentments of injuries, and dispose to forgive others as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven us.