Colossians 4:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁸ whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose, that ye may know our estate, and that he may comfort your hearts;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are faring and that he may comfort and cheer and encourage your hearts.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose, that ye may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts;

Common English Bible

⁸ This is why I sent him to you, so that you’ll know all about us and so he can encourage your hearts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that he may know the things that concern you, and may console your hearts,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Whom I have sent to you for this same purpose, that he may know the things that concern you, and comfort your hearts,

Colossians 4:8 Cross References

Isaiah 40:1

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

1 Corinthians 4:17

For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.

2 Corinthians 1:4

who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

2 Corinthians 12:18

I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? walked we not by the same Spirit? walked we not in the same steps?

2 Corinthians 2:7

so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.

Ephesians 6:22

whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose, that ye may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts.

Philippians 2:28

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

Colossians 2:2

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, even Christ,

1 Thessalonians 2:11

as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying,

1 Thessalonians 3:2

and sent Timothy, our brother and God's minister in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;

1 Thessalonians 3:5

For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labour should be in vain.

1 Thessalonians 4:18

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.

2 Thessalonians 2:17

comfort your hearts and stablish them in every good work and word.