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What does Philemon 1:7 mean?

"For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother."

— Philemon 1:7 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,

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hearing of your love, and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;

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that the fellowship of your faith may become effective, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

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

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Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

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yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

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I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,

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