Colossians 4:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;

Colossians 4:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 6:22
Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.
Colossians 2:2
That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
2 Thessalonians 2:17
Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
1 Thessalonians 2:11
As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Topics

Decision Tychicus Zeal, Religious

Commentary

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

(vv. 7-18)

In the close of this epistle the apostle does several of his friends the honour to leave their names upon record, with some testimony of his respect, which will be spoken of wherever the gospel comes, and last to the end of the world. I. Concerning Tychicus, Col. 4:7. By him this epistle was sent; and he does not give them an account in writing of his present state, because Tychicus would do it by…

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

(vv. 8)

8. for the same purpose--Greek, “for this very purpose.” that he might know your estate--Translate, “that he may know your state”: answering to Col 4:7. So one very old manuscript and Vulgate read. But the oldest manuscripts and the old Latin versions, “that YE may know OUR state.” However, the latter reading seems likely to have crept in from Ep 6:22. Paul was the more anxious to know the state o…