11 who once was to thee unprofitable, and now is profitable to me and to thee,
Lukas only is with me; Markus having taken, bring with thyself, for he is profitable to me for ministration;
but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.'
All did go out of the way, together they became unprofitable, there is none doing good, there is not even one.
who `were' once not a people, and `are' now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.
and the unprofitable servant cast ye forth to the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the 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.