Colossians 4:8

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Ephesians 6:22

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

Colossians 2:2

that their hearts may be encouraged as they are knit together in love, to have all the riches of assured understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, of Christ,

2 Thessalonians 2:17

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

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

1 Thessalonians 4:18

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

1 Thessalonians 3:5

For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent that I might know your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and that our labor would be in vain.

1 Thessalonians 3:2

and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the gospel of Christ, to establish you in your faith and to exhort you,

1 Thessalonians 2:11

for you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you

Philippians 2:28

I am the more eager to send him, therefore, that you may rejoice at seeing him again, and that I may be less anxious.

2 Corinthians 12:18

I urged Titus to go, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit? Did we not take the same steps?

2 Corinthians 2:7

so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

2 Corinthians 1:4

who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

1 Corinthians 4:17

Therefore I sent to you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.

Isaiah 40:1

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.