Colossians 1:7
Good News Translation
You learned of God's grace from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is Christ's faithful worker on our behalf.

New Revised Standard Version
This you learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf,

Contemporary English Version
from our good friend Epaphras. He works together with us for Christ and is a faithful worker for you.

New American Bible
as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow slave, who is a trustworthy minister of Christ on your behalf

Douay-Rheims Bible
As you learned of Epaphras, our most beloved fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ Jesus;

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As you learned of Epaphras, our most beloved fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ Jesus;

Epaphras.

Colossians 4:12 Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, who is always solicitous for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and full in all the will of God.

Philemon 1:23 There salute thee Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus:

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Philippians 2:19-22,25 And I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy unto you shortly, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know the things concerning you. . . .

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Numbers 12:7 But it is not so with my servant Moses who is most faithful in all my house:

Matthew 24:45 Who, thinkest thou, is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath appointed over his family, to give them meat in season?

Matthew 25:21 His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

1 Corinthians 4:2,17 Here now it is required among the dispensers that a man be found faithful. . . .

1 Corinthians 7:25 Now, concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give counsel, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.

2 Corinthians 11:23 They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

Ephesians 5:21 Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ.

1 Timothy 4:6 These things proposing to the brethren, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished up in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which thou hast attained unto.

2 Timothy 2:2 And the things which thou hast heard of me by many witnesses, the same commend to faithful men who shall be fit to teach others also.

Hebrews 2:17 Wherefore, it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people.

Hebrews 3:2 Who is faithful to him that made him, as was also Moses in all his house.

Context
Thanksgiving and Prayer
6Which is come unto you, as also it is in the whole world and bringeth forth fruit and groweth, even as it doth in you, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth. 7As you learned of Epaphras, our most beloved fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ Jesus; 8Who also hath manifested your love in the spirit.…
Cross References
Matthew 18:29
And his fellow-servant falling down, besought him, saying: Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

Colossians 4:7
All the things that concern me, Tychicus, our dearest brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord, will make known to you.

Colossians 4:9
With Onesimus, a most beloved and faithful brother, who is one of you. All things that are done here, they shall make known to you.

Colossians 4:12
Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, who is always solicitous for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and full in all the will of God.

Philemon 1:23
There salute thee Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus:

Colossians 1:6
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