Colossians 1:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

Colossians 1:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 15:30
Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;
Romans 5:5
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
2 Timothy 1:7
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Colossians 1:4
Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 3-8)

Here he proceeds to the body of the epistle, and begins with thanksgiving to God for what he had heard concerning them, though he had no personal acquaintance with them, and knew their state and character only by the reports of others. I. He gave thanks to God for them, that they had embraced the gospel of Christ, and given proofs of their fidelity to him. Observe, In his prayers for them he gave…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. your love--(Col 1:4); “to all the saints.” in the Spirit--the sphere or element IN which alone true love is found; as distinguished from the state of those “in the flesh” (Ro 8:9). Yet even they needed to be stirred up to greater love (Col 3:12-14). Love is the first and chief fruit of the Spirit (Ga 5:22).