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Christian Standard Bible ®

Colossians 1:8

and he has told us about your love in the Spirit.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Colosse (Colossae);   Holy Spirit;   Love;   Scofield Reference Index - Holy Spirit;   Thompson Chain Reference - Love;   Love-Hatred;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Love to Man;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Colosse;   Colossians, Epistle to the;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Paul;   Philemon;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Jesus Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Colossians, Epistle to the;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Colosse;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Colossians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Brotherly Love;   Colossians, Epistle to the;   Love;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Christ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ep'aphras;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Colossians, Epistle to the;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 25;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
He also told us about the love you have from the Spirit.
Revised Standard Version
and has made known to us your love in the Spirit.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
which also declared vnto vs youre love which ye have in the sprete.
Hebrew Names Version
who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
New American Standard Bible
and he also informed us of your love in the Spirit.
New Century Version
He also told us about the love you have from the Holy Spirit.
Update Bible Version
who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
Webster's Bible Translation
Who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
English Standard Version
and has made known to us your love in the Spirit.
World English Bible
who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Who also declared to us your love in the spirit.
Weymouth's New Testament
and moreover he has informed us of your love, which is inspired by the Spirit.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
which also schewide to vs youre louyng in spirit.
English Revised Version
who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
Berean Standard Bible
and who also informed us of your love in the Spirit.
Contemporary English Version
He is also the one who told us about the love that God's Spirit has given you.
Amplified Bible
and he also has told us of your love [well-grounded and nurtured] in the [Holy] Spirit.
American Standard Version
who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
Bible in Basic English
And who, himself, made clear to us your love in the Spirit.
Complete Jewish Bible
and he has told us about the love which the Spirit has given you.
Darby Translation
who has also manifested to us your love in [the] Spirit.
International Standard Version
He has told us about your love in the Spirit.Romans 15:30;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
and who hath made known to us your love, which is in the Spirit.
Murdock Translation
and who hath made known to us your love in the Spirit.
King James Version (1611)
Who also declared vnto vs your loue in the spirit.
New Living Translation
He has told us about the love for others that the Holy Spirit has given you.
New Life Bible
He told us that the Holy Spirit had given you much love.
New Revised Standard
and he has made known to us your love in the Spirit.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Who hath also declared vnto vs your loue in the Spirit.
George Lamsa Translation
And who has made known to us your love for spiritual things.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Who also hath made evident unto us your love in spirit.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Who also hath manifested your love in the spirit.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Who also declared vnto vs your loue in the spirite.
Good News Translation
He has told us of the love that the Spirit has given you.
King James Version
Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
Lexham English Bible
who also made clear to us your love in the Spirit.
Literal Translation
he also showing to us your love in the Spirit.
Young's Literal Translation
who also did declare to us your love in the Spirit.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
which also declared vnto vs youre loue in the sprete.
Mace New Testament (1729)
who also declared to us the love you bear to us upon a spiritual account.
THE MESSAGE
I, Paul, have been sent on special assignment by Christ as part of God's master plan. Together with my friend Timothy, I greet the Christians and stalwart followers of Christ who live in Colosse. May everything good from God our Father be yours! Our prayers for you are always spilling over into thanksgivings. We can't quit thanking God our Father and Jesus our Messiah for you! We keep getting reports on your steady faith in Christ, our Jesus, and the love you continuously extend to all Christians. The lines of purpose in your lives never grow slack, tightly tied as they are to your future in heaven, kept taut by hope. The Message is as true among you today as when you first heard it. It doesn't diminish or weaken over time. It's the same all over the world. The Message bears fruit and gets larger and stronger, just as it has in you. From the very first day you heard and recognized the truth of what God is doing, you've been hungry for more. It's as vigorous in you now as when you learned it from our friend and close associate Epaphras. He is one reliable worker for Christ! I could always depend on him. He's the one who told us how thoroughly love had been worked into your lives by the Spirit.
New English Translation
who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
New King James Version
who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
Simplified Cowboy Version
He came back and told me of the great love and purpose that had been awakened in y'all.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and he also informed us of your love in the Spirit.
Legacy Standard Bible
who also informed us of your love in the Spirit.

Contextual Overview

3We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints 5because of the hope reserved for you in heaven. You have already heard about this hope in the word of truth, the gospel 6that has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has among you since the day you heard it and came to truly appreciate God’s grace. 7You learned this from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf, 8and he has told us about your love in the Spirit.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Colossians 1:4, Romans 5:5, Romans 15:30, Galatians 5:22, 2 Timothy 1:7, 1 Peter 1:22

Reciprocal: Isaiah 11:2 - the spirit of wisdom Romans 15:14 - full Ephesians 1:22 - gave 3 John 1:3 - when

Cross-References

Genesis 1:5
God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” There was an evening, and there was a morning: one day.
Genesis 1:10
God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of the water he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:13
Evening came and then morning: the third day.
Genesis 1:19
Evening came and then morning: the fourth day.
Genesis 1:23
Evening came and then morning: the fifth day.
Genesis 1:31
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good indeed. Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.
Genesis 5:2
he created them male and female. When they were created, he blessed them and called them mankind.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit. Not only their love to God, and Christ, and to all the saints, which is before mentioned, but their love to the apostle; though they had only heard of him, and of his great capacity for, and faithfulness and usefulness in preaching of the Gospel, which had greatly endeared him to them. This, he says, was in the Spirit; it was spiritual love, to distinguish it from a carnal and worldly one; they loved him for the spiritual grace that was in him, the spiritual gifts bestowed on him, the spiritual service he was engaged in, and the spiritual usefulness he was of: or they loved him in, and with their spirits, with all their hearts, sincerely, and without dissimulation; and though they had never seen him in the flesh, yet being, as it were, present with him in spirit, their affections were knit unto him: or this their love was "in the Holy Spirit", as the Ethiopic version reads it; it was a fruit of the Spirit of God, which he had implanted in their hearts in regeneration, as is also love to God, and likewise to Christ.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit - The love wrought in you by the Holy Spirit. It was not mere natural affection, but love worked in their hearts by the agency of the Holy Spirit.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 8. Your love in the Spirit.So we preached, and so ye believed. The heavenly flame in the heart of this minister communicated itself to those who heard him; it was like priest like people. They enjoyed a spiritual, energetic ministry, and they were a spiritual people; they had a loving spirit, and love through the Spirit of God which dwelt in them. And of this love of theirs in the Spirit, and particularly towards the apostle, Epaphras gave full proof, not only by describing to the apostle the affection they felt for him, but in presenting to him those supplies which their love to him caused them to furnish.


 
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