Philemon 1:7
I have indeed found great joy and encouragement in your love, knowing, as I do, how the hearts of Christ's People have been cheered, brother, by you.
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Summary
For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
The bowels
Bible References
Great joy
1 Thessalonians 1:3
Recalling continually before our God and Father the efforts that have resulted from your faith, the toil prompted by your love, and the patient endurance sustained by your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
This, too, is a reason why we, on our part, are continually thanking God--because, in receiving the teaching that you had from us, you accepted it, not as the teaching of man, but as what it really is--the teaching of God, which is even now doing its work within you who believe in Christ.
1 Thessalonians 3:9
How can we thank God enough for all the happiness that you are giving us in the sight of our God?
2 John 1:4
It was a great joy to me to find the lives of some of your children guided by the Truth, in obedience to the command that we received from the Father.
3 John 1:3
For it was a great joy to me, when some Brothers came and testified to your fidelity to the Truth--I know that your own life is guided by the Truth.
The bowels
Philemon 1:20
Yes, Brother, let me gain something from you because of your union with the Lord. Cheer my heart by your Christlike spirit.
2 Corinthians 7:13
In addition to the encouragement that this gave us, we were made far happier still by the happiness of Titus for his heart has been cheered by you all.
2 Timothy 1:16
May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus; for he often cheered me and was not ashamed of my chains.