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Colosenses 1:8
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el cual también nos informó acerca de vuestro amor en el Espíritu.
quien tambi�n nos ha declarado vuestro amor en el Esp�ritu.
quien tambi�n nos ha declarado vuestra caridad en Esp�ritu.
Bible Verse Review
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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
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.
