Philemon 1:6
Good News Translation
My prayer is that our fellowship with you as believers will bring about a deeper understanding of every blessing which we have in our life in union with Christ.

New Revised Standard Version
I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective when you perceive all the good that we may do for Christ.

Contemporary English Version
As you share your faith with others, I pray they may come to know all the blessings Christ has given us.

New American Bible
so that your partnership in the faith may become effective in recognizing every good there is in us that leads to Christ.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That the communication of thy faith may be made evident in the acknowledgment of every good work that is in you in Christ Jesus.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That the communication of thy faith may be made evident in the acknowledgment of every good work that is in you in Christ Jesus.

the communication.

2 Corinthians 9:12-14 Because the administration of this office doth not only supply the want of the saints, but aboundeth also by many thanksgivings in the Lord. . . .

Philippians 1:9-11 And this I pray: That your charity may more and more abound in knowledge and in all understanding: . . .

Titus 3:14 And let our men also learn to excel in good works for necessary uses: that they be not unfruitful.

Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work and the love which you have shewn in his name, you who have ministered and do minister to the saints.

James 2:14,17 What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him? . . .

the acknowledging.

Matthew 5:16 So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

1 Corinthians 14:25 The secrets of his heart are made manifest. And so, falling down on his face, he will adore God, affirming that God is among you indeed.

Philippians 4:8 For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things.

1 Peter 1:5-8 Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. . . .

1 Peter 2:12 Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Peter 3:1,16 In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives, . . .

in you.

2 Peter 1:8 For if these things be with you and abound, they will make you to be neither empty nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Context
Philemon's Faith and Love
5Hearing of thy charity and faith, which thou hast in the Lord Jesus and towards all the saints: 6That the communication of thy faith may be made evident in the acknowledgment of every good work that is in you in Christ Jesus. 7For I have had great joy and consolation in thy charity, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 16:9
For a great door and evident is opened unto me: and many adversaries.

Philippians 1:9
And this I pray: That your charity may more and more abound in knowledge and in all understanding:

Colossians 1:9
Therefore we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to pray for you and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding:

Colossians 3:10
And putting on the new, him who is renewed unto knowledge, according to the image of him that created him.

Philemon 1:5
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