Colossians 4:8

Exhortations Regarding Fellow Workers

⁷ Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord. ⁸ For I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know about our circumstances and that he may encourage your hearts; ⁹ and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.

For This Purpose

For This Very Reason

Onesimus

Ephesians 6:22

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage your hearts.

Colossians 2:2

that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,

Isaiah 40:1

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.

Isaiah 61:2-3

to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

1 Corinthians 4:17

That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ,as I teach them everywhere in every church.

2 Corinthians 1:4

who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

2 Corinthians 2:7

so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

2 Corinthians 12:18

I urged Titus to go, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit? Did we not take the same steps?

Philippians 2:28

I am the more eager to send him, therefore, that you may rejoice at seeing him again, and that I may be less anxious.

1 Thessalonians 2:11

For you know how, like a father with his children,

1 Thessalonians 3:2

and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith,

1 Thessalonians 3:5

For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.

1 Thessalonians 4:18

Therefore encourage one another with these words.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle,encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.

2 Thessalonians 2:17

comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.