以弗所书 6:21

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

祝福親愛的推基古弟兄是主裡忠心的僕人，他會把我的一切都告訴你們，使你們可以知道我的景況。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
今 有 所 亲 爱 、 忠 心 事 奉 主 的 兄 弟 推 基 古 ， 他 要 把 我 的 事 情 ， 并 我 的 景 况 如 何 全 告 诉 你 们 ， 叫 你 们 知 道 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ Also pray for me that when I speak, God will give me words so that I can tell the secret of the Good News without fear. ²⁰ I have been sent to preach this Good News, and I am doing that now, here in prison. Pray that when I preach the Good News I will speak without fear, as I should. ²¹ I am sending to you Tychicus, our brother whom we love and a faithful servant of the Lord's work. He will tell you everything that is happening with me. Then you will know how I am and what I am doing. ²² I am sending him to you for this reason—so that you will know how we are, and he can encourage you. ²³ Peace and love with faith to you brothers and sisters from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ Grace to all of you who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love that never ends.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that: Philippians 1:12, Colossians 4:7

Tychicus: Acts 20:4, 2 Timothy 4:12, Titus 3:12

beloved: Colossians 4:9, Philemon 1:16, 2 Peter 3:15

faithful: 1 Corinthians 4:17, Colossians 1:7, 1 Timothy 4:6, 1 Peter 5:12

Reciprocal: Acts 15:25 - our Ephesians 1:1 - which Philippians 2:19 - to send Colossians 1:2 - faithful 1 Thessalonians 3:2 - our brother

Cross-References

Job 38:41
Who gives food to the birds when their young cry out to God and wander about without food?

Job 40:20
The hills, where the wild animals play, provide food for it.

Psalms 35:6
Let their road be dark and slippery as the angel of the Lord chases them.

Psalms 136:25
He gives food to every living creature. His love continues forever.

Psalms 145:16
You open your hand, and you satisfy all living things.

Psalms 147:9
He gives food to cattle and to the little birds that call.

Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds in the air. They don't plant or harvest or store food in barns, but your heavenly Father feeds them. And you know that you are worth much more than the birds.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But that ye also may know my affairs, [and] how I do,.... Both his temporal and spiritual affairs; as that he was in bonds, and how he was supported under them, and of what use they were to others; how that he preached in his own hired house, and with what success; and what ministering brethren he had with him to assist him; and in what condition was the church at Rome where he now was: the apostle's life and actions would bear the light, and what he did was worthy of imitation, and must be both delightful and useful to know; and the account he sends, by a messenger hereafter named, of whom he gives the following character, that credit might be the more readily given to his relation:

Tychicus, a beloved brother, and faithful minister in the Lord,

shall make known to you all things. This Tychicus was of Asia, who accompanied the apostle in his travels, and went with him to Rome, from whence he sent him to several places to relate his case, and to know the state of the churches, Colossians 4:7. He calls him "a beloved brother": he was a "brother", because he was a partaker of the same grace, was of the same family and household of God, and was of the same function, being a minister of the Gospel, and was a "beloved" one: he was beloved of God and Christ, and of all the saints that knew him, and especially a brother beloved of the Apostle Paul; and where there is brotherhood, there should be love: he also styles him a "faithful minister in the Lord"; he was a "minister" in the work and service of the Lord, in things pertaining to him; he was one of his appointing, qualifying, and sending; and he preached Christ, and him crucified; and was a "faithful" one, to his Lord or master, in whose name he ministered, to the Gospel which he ministered, and to the souls of men to whom he ministered; and a greater character he could not well have; and therefore it need not be doubted but that he would faithfully relate all things concerning the apostle, and what he said might be depended on as truth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But that ye also may know my affairs - May understand my condition, my feelings, and in what I am engaged. To them it could not but be a subject of deep interest.

And how I do - Greek, “What I do; that is how I am employed.

Tychicus - Tychicus was of the province of Asia, in Asia Minor, of which Ephesus was the capital; see Acts 20:4. It is not improbable that he was of Ephesus, and that he was well known to the church there. He also carried the letter to the Colossians Colossians 4:7, and probably the Second Epistle to Timothy; 2 Timothy 4:12. Paul also proposed to send him to Crete to succeed Titus; Titus 3:12. He was high in the confidence of: Paul, but it is not known when he was converted, or why he was now at Rome. The Greeks speak of him as one of the seventy disciples, and make him bishop of Colophon, in the province of Asia.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 21. That ye also — As well as other Churches to whom I have communicated the dealings both of God and man to me.

May know my affairs — May be acquainted with my situation and circumstances.

And how I do — How I employ my time, and what fruit there is of my apostolical labours.

Tychicus, a beloved brother — We learn, from Acts 20:4, that Tychicus was of Asia, and that he was a useful companion of St. Paul. See the note on the above place.

This same person, and with the same character and commendation, is mentioned in the Epistle to the Colossians, Colossians 4:7. He is mentioned also in Titus 3:12, and in 2 Timothy 4:12; from all these places it is evident that he was a person in whom the apostle had the highest confidence, and that he was a very eminent minister of Christ.