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Thanks for Philemon’s Love and Faith

I always thank my God[a] as I remember you in my prayers,[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Philemon 1:4 sn I always thank my God. An offer of thanksgiving (εὐχαριστῶ, eucharistō) to God is a customary formula for Paul in many of his epistles (cf. Rom 1:8, 1 Cor 1:4, Eph 1:16, Col 1:3, 1 Thess 1:2, 2 Thess 1:3). The content of the thanksgiving typically points to the work of God in the salvation of the believers to whom he [Paul] writes.
  2. Philemon 1:4 tn Grk “making remembrance (or “mention”) of you in my prayers.”