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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Philemon 1:3

Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Iesus Christ.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- 1910 New Catholic Dictionary - biblical genealogies;   genealogies, biblical;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Onesimus;   Philemon;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for April 5;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
King James Version
Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
English Standard Version
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
New American Standard Bible
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
New Century Version
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Legacy Standard Bible
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Berean Standard Bible
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Contemporary English Version
I pray that God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ will be kind to you and will bless you with peace!
Complete Jewish Bible
Grace and shalom to you from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
Darby Translation
Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.
Easy-to-Read Version
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Grace be with you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.
George Lamsa Translation
Grace be with you, and peace, from God our Father and our LORD Jesus Christ.
Good News Translation
May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.
Lexham English Bible
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Literal Translation
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Amplified Bible
Grace to you and peace [inner calm and spiritual well-being] from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
American Standard Version
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Bible in Basic English
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrew Names Version
Grace to you and shalom from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
International Standard Version
May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be yours!yours is pl. in the Gk.">[fn]Ephesians 1:2;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
Grace be with thee, and peace, from Aloha our Father, and from our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.
Murdock Translation
Grace be with you, and peace from God our father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Grace to you, and peace from God our father, and the Lorde Iesus Christ.
English Revised Version
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
World English Bible
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Grace be unto you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Weymouth's New Testament
May grace be granted to you all, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
grace be to you, and pees of God oure fader, and of the Lord Jhesu Crist.
Update Bible Version
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Webster's Bible Translation
Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
New English Translation
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!
New King James Version
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
New Living Translation
May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.
New Life Bible
May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you His loving-favor and peace.
New Revised Standard
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Favour unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and Lord Jesus Christ.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Grace to you and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Revised Standard Version
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Grace be with you and peace from God oure father and from the Lorde Iesus Christ.
Young's Literal Translation
Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Grace be with you, and peace from God oure father and from the LORDE Iesus Christ.
Mace New Testament (1729)
from God our father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Simplified Cowboy Version
I pray God and our Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.

Contextual Overview

1 Paul a prisoner of Iesus Christ, & Timothie our brother vnto Philemon our dearely beloued, and fellow labourer, 2 And to our beloued Apphia, and Archippus our fellow Souldier, and to the Church in thy house. 3 Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Iesus Christ. 4 I thanke my God, making mention of thee alwayes in my prayers, 5 Hearing of thy loue, and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Iesus, and toward all Saints: 6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectuall by the acknowledging of euery good thing, which is in you in Christ Iesus. 7 For wee haue great ioy and consolation in thy loue, because the bowels of the Saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Romans 1:7, 2 Corinthians 13:14, Ephesians 1:2

Reciprocal: Matthew 6:21 - there Matthew 20:21 - Grant 2 Corinthians 1:2 - General

Cross-References

Job 36:30
Behold, he spreadeth his light vpon it, and couereth the bottome of the sea.
Job 38:19
Where is the way where light dwelleth? And as for darknesse, where is the place thereof?
Psalms 33:6
By the word of the Lord were the heauens made: and all the host of them, by the breath of his mouth.
Psalms 33:9
For he spake, and it was done: he commanded, and it stood fast.
Psalms 97:11
Light is sowen for the righteous: and gladnesse for the vpright in heart.
Psalms 104:2
Who couerest thy selfe with light, as with a garment: who stretchest out the heauens like a curtaine.
Psalms 118:27
God is the Lord, which hath shewed vs light, bind the sacrifice with cords: euen vnto the horns of the Altar.
Psalms 148:5
Let them praise the Name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.
Isaiah 45:7
I forme the light, and create darkenesse: I make peace, and create euill: I the Lord do all these things.
Isaiah 60:19
The Sunne shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightnesse shall the moone giue light vnto thee: but the Lord shall be vnto thee an euerlasting light, & thy God thy glory.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Grace to you and peace, from God,.... Which is the same form of salutation used in the other epistles; :- for though this epistle is but a very small one, yet it is introduced in the same form as the larger epistles are; and has an inscription in the former verse, a salutation in this, and a preface in the three following.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Grace to you, and peace ... - See if the notes at Romans 1:7.


 
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