5Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;
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Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. …
But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)I. In the Phlm. 1:1 , 2 of the preface we have the persons from and to whom it is written, with some annexed note or title, implying somewhat of argument to the purpose of the letter. 1. The persons writing: Paul, the principal, who calls himself a prisoner of Jesus Christ , that is, for Jesus Christ. To be a prisoner simply is no comfort nor honour; but such as Paul was, for the faith and preachi…
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