The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible

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Philemon 1:4

I thank my God…
Meaning on account, of Philemon, for the grace bestowed upon him, thereafter mentioned; (See Gill on 1:8) making other saints, (Romans 1:9) (Ephesians 1:16) (Philippians 1:3,4) (Colossians 1:3) (1 Thessalonians 1:2) , the apostle was a man much in prayer, frequent at the throne of grace; and he prayed not for himself only, but for all the saints, for all the churches and ministers of the Gospel; whom he not only bore upon his mind and heart, but made mention of them, it may be by name; however, he remembered them, and put up petitions, with thanksgivings, for them; and so he did for Philemon; and which he takes notice of with the same view as before: the word, "always", is so placed in the original text, as to be put either to his thanks to God, or his prayers, and may be true of both; the Syriac and Arabic versions join it to the former; and the Vulgate Latin and the Ethiopic versions place it to the latter.