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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.
Philemon 1:7 · Bible in Basic English
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Philemon 1:7 in other translations
For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
I take great joy and encouragement in your love, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints.
For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
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In context
4 I give praise to God at all times and make prayer for you,
5 Hearing of the love and the faith which you have to the Lord Jesus and to all the saints;
6 That the faith which you have in common with them may be working with power, in the knowledge of every good thing in you, for Christ.
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.
8 And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,
9 Still, because of love, in place of an order, I make a request to you, I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner of Christ Jesus:
10 My request is for my child Onesimus, the child of my chains,
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