Philemon 1:7
For we have great thankfulness and encouragement through thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, 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
remembering unceasingly your work of faith, and labour of love, and enduring constancy of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
1 Thessalonians 2:13
And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received the word of the report of God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's word, which also works in you who believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:9
For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on account of you before our God,
2 John 1:4
I rejoiced greatly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received commandment from the Father.
3 John 1:3
For I rejoiced exceedingly when the brethren came and bore testimony to thy holding fast the truth, even as thou walkest in truth.
The bowels
Philemon 1:20
Yea, brother, I would have profit of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in Christ.
2 Corinthians 7:13
For this reason we have been encouraged. And we the rather rejoiced in our encouragement more abundantly by reason of the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
2 Timothy 1:16
The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he has often refreshed me, and has not been ashamed of my chain;
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Ruth 2:16
And ye shall also sometimes draw out for her some ears out of the handfuls, and leave them that she may glean, and rebuke her not.