7 for we have much joy and comfort in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.
because 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;
great `is' my freedom of speech unto you, great my glory on your behalf; I have been filled with the comfort, I overabound with the joy on all our tribulation,
Yes, brother, may I have profit of thee in the Lord; refresh my bowels in the Lord;
unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,
for what `is' our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are not even ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his presence?
for 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?
for I rejoiced exceedingly, brethren coming and testifying of the truth in thee, even as thou in truth dost walk; greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking. Beloved, faithfully dost thou do whatever thou mayest work to the brethren and to the strangers, who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,
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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.