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the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Lexham English Bible

Philemon 1:3

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus 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 (1611)
Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Iesus 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.
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 Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our dear friend and fellow worker, 2 and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house. 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4 I thank my God, always making mention of you in my prayers, 5 because I hear about your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints. 6 I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing that is in us for Christ. 7 For I have great joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, 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
Look, he scatters his lightning around him, and he covers the roots of the sea.
Job 38:19
"Where then is the way where the light dwells? And where then is its place,
Psalms 33:6
By the word of Yahweh the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.
Psalms 33:9
For he himself spoke and it came to pass. He himself commanded and it stood firm.
Psalms 97:11
Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.
Psalms 104:2
you who cover yourself with light as with a garment, who stretch out the heavens like a tent curtain,
Psalms 118:27
Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.
Psalms 148:5
Let them praise the name of Yahweh, because he commanded and they were created.
Isaiah 45:7
I form light and I create darkness; I make peace and I create evil; I am Yahweh; I do all these things.
Isaiah 60:19
The sun shall no longer be your light by day, and for bright light the moon shall not give you light, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God your 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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