Colossians 4:8
I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,
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Isaiah 61:2to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
2 Corinthians 1:4who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 12:18I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit? Didn’t we walk in the same steps?
Philippians 2:28I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
1 Thessalonians 2:11As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
1 Thessalonians 3:5For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
Matthew Henry on Colossians 4:8-18
Various Salutations. ( a. d. 62.) 7 All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord: 8 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts; 9 With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here. 10 Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received… Read the whole commentary →