Cross references

Colossians 4:8

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

Colossians 4:8 BSB

Colossians 4:8 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ephesians 6:22 (5 votes) and Colossians 2:2 (4 votes). 7 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Isaiah 40 to 2 Thessalonians 2.

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  1. I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know about us, and that he may encourage your hearts.

  2. that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,

  3. “Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.

  4. to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn, to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

  5. That is why I have sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which is exactly what I teach everywhere in every church.

  6. who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

  7. So instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

  8. I urged Titus to visit you, and I sent our brother with him. Did Titus exploit you in any way? Did we not walk in the same Spirit and follow in the same footsteps?

  9. Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may rejoice, and I may be less anxious.

  10. For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—

  11. We sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,

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