Colossians 4:8

Colossians 4:8

6 Let your speech always be ^awith grace, ^bseasoned with salt, ^cthat you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Final Greetings

7 ^aTychicus, a beloved brother, faithful minister, and fellow servant in the Lord, will tell you all the news about me.

8 ^aI am sending him to you for this very purpose, that¹ he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,

9 with ^aOnesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you all things which are happening here.

10 ^aAristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, with ^bMark the cousin of Barnabas (about whom you received instructions: if he comes to you, welcome him),

11 and Jesus who is called Justus. These are my only fellow workers for the kingdom of God who are of the circumcision; they have proved to be a comfort to me.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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for the same purpose—Greek, "for this very purpose."

that he might know your estate—Translate, "that he may know your state": answering to Colossians 4:7. So one very old manuscript and Vulgate read. But the oldest manuscripts and the old Latin versions, "that YE may know OUR state." However, the latter reading seems likely to have crept in from Ephesians 6:22. Paul was the more anxious to know the state of the Colossians, on account of the seductions to which they were exposed from false teachers; owing to which he had "great conflict for" them (Colossians 2:1).

comfort your hearts—distressed as ye are by my imprisonment, as well as by your own trials.

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