Philemon 1:7

For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.

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Summary

Philemon 1:7

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

Great joy

3 John 1:3

The bowels

Philemon 1:20

2 Corinthians 7:13

2 Timothy 1:16

Bible References

Great joy

remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.

For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you in return for all the joy which we feel for your sake before our God,

I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.

For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, and how you are walking in truth.

The bowels

Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.

Therefore we are comforted. And besides our own comfort, we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains;