Daily Bible Reading 13th August 2025 // Colossians 4:7-10
7 Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord. 8 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts, 9 and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.
10 Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you have received instructions—if he comes to you, welcome him),
It was, you will remember, in response to Epaphras' news (1:7-8) of dangerous teaching troubling the newly established churches in the Lycus Valley, that Paul, full of concern, drafted this letter. The letter is now sent by the hands of Tychicus and Onesimus, Paul's fellow-workers, to the church in Colossae (vv 7-9). Tychicus, it seems, was Paul's special envoy, at this time, to the churches of Asia Minor which had been established during Paul's earlier ministry in Ephesus (Acts 19:10). Paul himself was under arrest in Rome and unable to travel, so, full of loving concern for the work of the gospel and for the welfare of the believers, he sent Tychicus to Asia to minister in his place, and Tychicus (Acts 20:4; 2 Timothy 4:12; Titus 3:12) carried letters from Paul to the various churches. Tychicus was certainly the bearer of Paul's Ephesian letter (6:21-22), this letter to the Colossians (4:7-8), and more than likely Paul's lost letter to the Laodiceans (4:16).