Lectionary Calendar
Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
Wednesday in Easter Week
Attention!
Tired of seeing ads while studying? Now you can enjoy an "Ads Free" version of the site for as little as 10¢ a day and support a great cause!
Click here to learn more!

Read the Bible

Wesley's New Testament

Philemon 1:3

Grace be unto 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.
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.
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 Jesus Christ, and Timotheus a brother, to Philemon the beloved and our fellow-labourer, 2 And to the beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellow-soldier, and the church which is in thy house: 3 Grace be unto you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4 I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, (Hearing of thy faith which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, 5 and love 6 toward all saints) That the communication of thy faith may become effectual, by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in you through Christ Jesus. 7 For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, 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

Matthew 8:3
And Jesus stretching forth his hand, touched him, saying, I will; Be thou clean.
John 1:5
And the light shineth in darkness, but the darkness perceived it not.
John 1:9
This was the true light, who lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
John 3:19
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
John 11:43
And having spoken thus, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
Ephesians 5:8
For ye were once darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord:
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
1 Timothy 6:16
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no man hath seen, neither can see; to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
1 John 1:5
And this is the message which we have heard of him and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1 John 2:8
Again, I do write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you: for the darkness is past away, and the true light now shineth.

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.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile