Colossians 4:8

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Summary

Colossians 4:8

Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;

I have

1 Thessalonians 3:5

And comfort

General references

Ephesians 6:22

Bible References

I have

For this cause, I sent to you Timothy, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who will bring to your remembrance my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

I entreated Titus, and sent with him the brother. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? did we not walk in the same steps?

whom I sent to you for this very purpose, that ye may know our affairs, and that he may encourage your hearts.

I sent him, therefore, the more urgently, that, seeing him again, ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful.

For this reason, I also, no longer enduring it, sent, that I might know your faith, lest by some means the tempter tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.

And comfort

that their hearts may he comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, unto the full knowledge of the mystery of God, even Christ,

Who consoleth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to console those who are in any tribulation, through the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God.

so that, on the contrary, ye ought rather to forgive and console him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying,

and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God in the Gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to exhort you concerning your faith;

So then, comfort one another with these words.

Wherefore, exhort one another, and build up one another, as also ye do.

comfort your hearts, and establish, you in every good work and word.

General references

whom I sent to you for this very purpose, that ye may know our affairs, and that he may encourage your hearts.