Philemon 1:17

“If thou count me therefore a partner, &c.] A companion and friend, who reckon each other's affairs and interest their own: the word answers to rbx, a word often used in Talmudic writings, for an associate of the doctors or wise men: here it may mean also a partner both in grace, and in the ministry; one that shared in the same gifts and graces of the Spirit of God, and one that was to be a partaker of the inheritance with the saints in light: now if Philemon reckoned the apostle such an one, as he doubtless did, as being engaged in the same common cause, and a partaker of the same common faith, and interested in the same common salvation; then he entreats him on account of Onesimus, in the…”

“a partner--in the Christian fellowship of faith, hope, and love. receive him as myself--resuming "receive him that is mine own bowels."”

“If there count me therefore a partner - The word rendered “partner” (κοινωνὸς koinōnos, means “a partaker, a companion.” The idea in the word is that of having something in common (κοινὸς koinos) with any one - as common principles; common attachments; a common interest in an enterprise; common hopes. It may be applied to those who hold the same principles of religion, and who have the same hope of heaven, the same views of things, etc. Here the meaning is, that if Philemon regarded Paul as sharing with him in the principles and hopes of religion, or as a brother in the gospel so that he would receive him, he ought to receive Onesimus in the same way. He was actuated by the same…”

“If thou accountest me a partner - So that thy things are mine, and mine are thine. Philemon 1:19”

“thou count: Act 16:15; Co2 8:23; Eph 3:6; Phi 1:7; Ti1 6:2; Heb 3:1, Heb 3:14; Jam 2:5; Pe1 5:1; Jo1 1:3 receive: Plm 1:10, Plm 1:12; Mat 10:40, Mat 12:48-50, Mat 18:5, Mat 25:40 Philemon 1:18”