Philemon 1:7
For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.
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For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
The bowels
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Bible References
Great joy
1 Thessalonians 1:3
Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
1 Thessalonians 2:13
And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.
1 Thessalonians 3:9
For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God;
2 John 1:4
It gave me great joy to see some of your children walking in the true way, even as we were ordered to do by the Father.
3 John 1:3
For it gave me great joy when some of the brothers came and gave witness that you had the true faith and were walking in the true way.
The bowels
Philemon 1:20
So brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: give new life to my heart in Christ.
2 Corinthians 7:13
So we have been comforted: and we had the greater joy in our comfort because of the joy of Titus, for his spirit had been made glad by you all.
2 Timothy 1:16
May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus because he frequently gave me help, and had no feeling of shame because I was in chains;
General references
Ruth 2:16
And let some heads of grain be pulled out of what has been corded up, and dropped for her to take, and let no sharp word be said to her.