Colossians 1:8

and who hath made known to us your love in the Spirit.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

In Context

7as ye learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful minister of the Messiah;

9Therefore we also, from the day we heard of it, have not ceased to pray for you; and to ask that ye may be filled with a knowledge of the good pleasure of God, in all wisdom, and in all spiritual understanding;

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Cross References

Romans 5:5and hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is diffused in our hearts, by the Holy Spirit who is given to us.

Galatians 5:22But the fruits of the Spirit are, love, joy, peace, long suffering, suavity, kindness, fidelity, modesty, patience.

2 Timothy 1:7For God hath not given us a spirit of fear, but of energy, and of love, and of instruction.

Matthew Henry on Colossians 1:4-9

Paul's Thanksgiving for the Colossians. ( a. d. 62.) 3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, 4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, 5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; 6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in… Read the whole commentary →

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