Colossians 4:8

Paul is sending Tychicus specifically to inform the Colossians about his circumstances and to encourage them. It matters because Paul's concern was to comfort and strengthen the believers, not merely to relay information.

Cross-references · 16

• Eph 6:22Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.
• Col 2:2That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
• 1 Th 5:11Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
• 2 Th 2:17Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
• 1 Th 4:18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
• 1 Th 3:2And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:
• 2 Cor 12:18I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?
• Phil 2:28I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
• 1 Th 2:11As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
• 2 Cor 1:4Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
• 2 Cor 2:7So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
• 1 Th 3:5For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
• Isa 40:1Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
• 1 Cor 4:17For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
• Isa 61:2–3To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
• 1 Th 5:14Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

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