Colossians 1:8

8 and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.

Colossians 1:8 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
8 Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
English Standard Version (ESV)
8 and has made known to us your love in the Spirit.
New Living Translation (NLT)
8 He has told us about the love for others that the Holy Spirit has given you.
The Message Bible (MSG)
8 He's the one who told us how thoroughly love had been worked into your lives by the Spirit.
American Standard Version (ASV)
8 who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
8 and has told us about the love that the Spirit has given you.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
8 and he has told us about your love in the Spirit.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
8 He also told us about your love that comes from the Holy Spirit.

Colossians 1:8 Meaning and Commentary

Colossians 1:8

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.

Colossians 1:8 In-Context

6 that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world—just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace.
7 You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,
8 and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,
10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,

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