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Green's Literal Translation

Philemon 1:7

For we have much joy and encouragement over your love, in that the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Onesimus;   Philemon;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Bowels;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for April 5;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For I have great joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
King James Version (1611)
For wee haue great ioy and consolation in thy loue, because the bowels of the Saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
King James Version
For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
English Standard Version
For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
New American Standard Bible
For I have had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
New Century Version
I have great joy and comfort, my brother, because the love you have shown to God's people has refreshed them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For I have come to have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
Legacy Standard Bible
For I have come to have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
Berean Standard Bible
I take great joy and encouragement in your love, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints.
Contemporary English Version
My friend, your love has made me happy and has greatly encouraged me. It has also cheered the hearts of God's people.
Complete Jewish Bible
For your love has given me much joy and encouragement. Brother, you have refreshed the hearts of God's people.
Darby Translation
For we have great thankfulness and encouragement through thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
Easy-to-Read Version
My brother, you have shown love to God's people, and your help has greatly encouraged them. What a great joy and encouragement that has been to me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For we haue great ioy and consolation in thy loue, because by thee, brother, the Saintes bowels are comforted.
George Lamsa Translation
For we have great joy and consolation in your love, and the hearts of the saints are refreshed.
Good News Translation
Your love, dear brother, has brought me great joy and much encouragement! You have cheered the hearts of all of God's people.
Lexham English Bible
For I have great joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
Amplified Bible
For I have had great joy and comfort and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints (God's people) have been refreshed through you, my brother.
American Standard Version
For I had much joy and comfort in thy love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.
Bible in Basic English
For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.
Hebrew Names Version
For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the holy ones have been refreshed through you, brother.
International Standard Version
For I have received considerable joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed, brother, through you.2 Corinthians 7:13; 2 Timothy 1:16;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
For we have great joy and consolation, that by thy love the bowels of the saints are refreshed.
Murdock Translation
For we have great joy and consolation, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thy love.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For we haue great ioy & consolation in thy loue, because the bowels of the saintes are refresshed by thee, brother.
English Revised Version
For I had much joy and comfort in thy love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.
World English Bible
For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
Weymouth's New Testament
For I have found great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of God's people have been, and are, refreshed through you, my brother.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y hadde greet ioye and coumfort in thi charite, for the entrailis of hooli men restiden bi thee, brother.
Update Bible Version
For I had much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
Webster's Bible Translation
For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
New English Translation
I have had great joy and encouragement because of your love, for the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
New King James Version
For we have [fn] great joy [fn] and consolation in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.
New Living Translation
Your love has given me much joy and comfort, my brother, for your kindness has often refreshed the hearts of God's people.
New Life Bible
Your love has given me much joy and comfort. The hearts of the Christians have been made happy by you, Christian brother.
New Revised Standard
I have indeed received much joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, my brother.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, much joy, have I had, and encouragement, by occasion of thy love, in that, the tender affections of the saints, have had rest given them by thee, brother.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For I have had great joy and consolation in thy charity, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother.
Revised Standard Version
For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And we have great ioye and consolacion over thy love: for by the (brother) the saynctes hertes are comforted.
Young's Literal Translation
for we have much joy and comfort in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Greate ioye and consolacion haue I in thy loue. For by the (brother) the sayntes are hertely refresshed.
Mace New Testament (1729)
for your liberality, my brother, affected us with great joy and comfort, by your having refresh'd the bowels of the saints.
Simplified Cowboy Version
The love and comfort you've shown me has helped me and countless others.

Contextual Overview

1 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy the brother, to Philemon the beloved and our fellow-worker, 2 and to Apphia the beloved, and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the assembly 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 hearing of your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints, 6 so that the fellowship of your faith may operate in a full knowledge of every good thing in you for Jesus Christ. 7 For we have much joy and encouragement over your love, in that the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

great joy: 1 Thessalonians 1:3, 1 Thessalonians 2:13, 1 Thessalonians 2:19, 1 Thessalonians 3:9, 2 John 1:4, 3 John 1:3-6

the bowels: Philemon 1:20, 2 Corinthians 7:13, 2 Timothy 1:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 33:9 - my brother Ruth 2:16 - General 1 Chronicles 29:17 - joy thy people Job 29:13 - I caused Proverbs 27:11 - be wise Isaiah 58:7 - to deal Matthew 6:2 - when Matthew 25:16 - went Matthew 25:35 - I was an Mark 14:7 - ye have Luke 14:13 - call Acts 16:34 - when Romans 12:13 - Distributing Romans 15:32 - and may 1 Corinthians 16:1 - the saints 1 Corinthians 16:15 - to the Philippians 1:4 - with Philemon 1:5 - toward the Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
And God called the expanse, Heavens. And there was evening, and there was morning the second day.
Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be collected to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so.
Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let the earth sprout tender sprouts, the plant seeding seed, the fruit tree producing fruit according to its kind, whichever seed is in it on the earth. And it was so.
Genesis 1:15
And let them be for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth. And it was so.
Genesis 1:24
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the soul of life according to its kind: cattle, and creepers, and its beasts of the earth, according to its kind. And it was so.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the seas, and over birds of the heavens, and over all beasts creeping on the earth.
Genesis 1:29
And God said, Behold, I have given you every plant seeding seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree seeding seed; it shall be food for you.
Job 26:8
He binds up the waters in His thick clouds; and the cloud does not burst under them.
Psalms 104:10
He sends springs into the valleys; they flow between the hills;
Psalms 148:4
Praise Him, O heavens of heavens; and O waters that are above the heavens.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For we have great joy and consolation in thy love,.... In the expressions and acts of it to the poor saints; for which reason the apostle gives thanks for it before; and it is a pleasure and comfort to an ingenuous mind, though it is not in his power to do good to the poor saints himself, to see that others have both abilities, and a heart to relieve them:

because the bowels of the saints are, refreshed by thee, brother; meaning, not only that their bellies were filled with food, for the phrase is used in Philemon 1:20 where that cannot be intended; but their hearts were filled with gladness, the load upon their spirits, the pressures upon their minds were removed, and they had an inward pleasure in their souls, and rest, refreshment, and comfort, through the liberal communications of Philemon to them; who did what he did cheerfully, that so it did their souls good, as well as their bodies; and in doing which, he acted the part of a brother in Christ.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For we have great joy and consolation in thy love - In thy love toward Christians. The word here rendered “joy” (χάριν charin), properly means grace. A large number of manuscripts, however, instead of this word, have χαρὰν charan, Charan, joy. See Wetstein. This reading has been adopted by Griesbach, Tittman, and Hahn.

Because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother - For your kindness to them. The word “bowels” here probably means minds, hearts, for it is used in the Scriptures to denote the affections. The sense is, that the kindness which he had shown to Christians had done much to make them happy. On the word refreshed, see 2 Corinthians 7:13; 2 Timothy 1:16.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Philemon 1:7. For we have great joy — This verse does not read harmoniously. The Greek authorizes the following arrangement: For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, O brother, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee. The apostle speaks here of the works of charity in which Philemon abounded towards poor Christians.


 
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