Colossians 4:8

Exhortations Regarding Fellow Workers

⁷ Tychicus, my beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow slave in the Lord, will make known to you all that concerns me. ⁸ I have sent him with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, one of your own number, for this very purpose, to let you know how I am, and to cheer your hearts. ⁹ They will inform you of all that goes on 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 about us, and that he may cheer your hearts.

Colossians 2:2

May their hearts be comforted! May they be knit together in love! May they gain in all its riches the full assurance of their understanding! May they come to a perfect knowledge of the secret truth of God, which is Christ himself.

1 Corinthians 4:17

With this in mind I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dear and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ; the manner in which I ever teach everywhere in every church.

2 Corinthians 1:4

who ever comforts me in all my troubles, so that I may be continually able to comfort those who are in any trouble by the comfort with which God is ever comforting me.

2 Corinthians 2:7

so that now you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest he should be overwhelmed by the excess of his grief.

2 Corinthians 12:18

I urged Titus to go, and with him I sent our brother. Did Titus make gain of you? And did I not walk in the same spirit as he did? Did I not take the very same steps?

Philippians 2:28

Therefore I have been the more eager to send him, in order that you may rejoice in seeing him again, and that I may have one sorrow less.

1 Thessalonians 2:11

You know how I was wont to treat each of you as a father treats his children,

1 Thessalonians 3:2

I sent Timothy, my brother and God's fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and to hearten you in your faith.

1 Thessalonians 3:5

So, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to find out about your faith, fearing that the tempter had tempted you and that my labor had been in vain.

1 Thessalonians 4:18

So comfort one another with these words.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

So comfort one another, and try to build one another up, as indeed you are doing.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And, brothers, we urge you to admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, sustain the weak, lose patience with none.

2 Thessalonians 2:17

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