Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.
The verse belongs to Paul's letter to Philemon, written at the time of his arrival and imprisonment in Rome described in Acts 28:11-31. It is a tender, earnest closing appeal for Onesimus, made after Paul offered to assume Onesimus's debt. It was also made after Paul reminded Philemon that he owed Paul his own self in a special sense, because God had made Paul the instrument of his conversion.
The request was to receive the repentant Onesimus as a beloved brother and to grant Paul's appeal for him. Philemon was asked to show the same generosity by which by his liberalities he had refreshed the saints, and thereby to refresh Paul's spirit and grant him this cause of rejoicing concerning Onesimus. In the verse Paul declared his confidence in Philemon's obedience, that he would do what Paul asked and would do even more than Paul said.
The verse belongs to Paul's letter to Philemon, written at the time of his arrival and imprisonment in Rome described in Acts 28:11-31. It is a tender, earnest closing appeal for Onesimus, made after Paul offered to assume Onesimus's debt. It was also made after Paul reminded Philemon that he owed Paul his own self in a special sense, because God had made Paul the instrument of his conversion.
The request was to receive the repentant Onesimus as a beloved brother and to grant Paul's appeal for him. Philemon was asked to show the same generosity by which by his liberalities he had refreshed the saints, and thereby to refresh Paul's spirit and grant him this cause of rejoicing concerning Onesimus. In the verse Paul declared his confidence in Philemon's obedience, that he would do what Paul asked and would do even more than Paul said.