Bible verse
I take great joy and encouragement in your love, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints.
Philemon 1:7 · BSB
The verses around it, from Philemon 1.
3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I always thank my God, remembering you in my prayers,
5 because I hear about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints.
6 I pray that your partnership in the faith may become effective as you fully acknowledge every good thing that is ours in Christ.
7 I take great joy and encouragement in your love, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints.
8 So although in Christ I am bold enough to order you to do what is proper,
9 I prefer to appeal on the basis of love. For I, Paul, am now aged, and a prisoner of Christ Jesus as well.
10 I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I became while I was in chains.
11 Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.
KJV
For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
ASV
For I had much joy and comfort in thy love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.
ERV
For I had much joy and comfort in thy love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.
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