“Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.”
— WEB
Philemon 1:20
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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.”
— KJV
“Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my heart in Christ.”
— ASV
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Commentary
let me--"me" is emphatic: "Let me have profit (so Greek 'for joy,' onainen, referring to the name Onesimus, 'profitable') from thee, as thou shouldst have had from Onesimus"; for "thou owest thine ownself to me." in the Lord--not in worldly gain, but in thine increase in the graces of the Lord's Spirit [ALFORD]. my bowels--my heart. Gratify my feelings by granting this request. in the Lord--The oldest manuscripts read, "in Christ," the element or sphere in which this act of Christian love naturally ought to have place.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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