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 to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts.
• Col 2:2that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
• 1 Th 5:11Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
• 2 Th 2:17comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
• 1 Th 4:18Therefore comfort one another with these words.
• 1 Th 3:2and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;
• 2 Cor 12:18I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit? Didn’t we walk in the same steps?
• Phil 2:28I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
• 1 Th 2:11As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
• 2 Cor 1:4who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
• 2 Cor 2:7so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
• 1 Th 3:5For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
• Isa 40:1“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
• 1 Cor 4:17Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
• Isa 61:2–3to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
• 1 Th 5:14We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

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