Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how I long for you all in bowels of Jesus Christ.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
In Context
9And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment
Cross References
Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory. Where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? The yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me.
Luke 1:78because of the bowels of mercy of our God, by which the dayspring from on high came to help us,
Romans 9:1I say the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience testifying to me in the Holy Spirit,
2 Corinthians 7:15And his bowels are more abundant toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how ye received him with fear and trembling.
Galatians 1:20Now what I write to you, behold before God, I do not lie.
Philippians 2:1If therefore any exhortation is in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
Matthew Henry on Philippians 1:8-9
The Apostle's Affection and Hope. ( a. d. 62.) 7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace. 8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. The apostle expresses the ardent affection he had for them, and his concern for their spiritual welfare: I have you in my heart, v. 7 . He loved them as his own soul, and they lay… Read the whole commentary →