Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness how I long after you all in [the] bowels of Christ Jesus.
Darby Translation
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 yet more and more in full knowledge and all intelligence,
Cross References
Isaiah 63:15Look down from the heavens, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory! Where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy tender mercies? Are they restrained toward me?
Luke 1:78on account of [the] bowels of mercy of our God; wherein [the] dayspring from on high has visited us,
Romans 9:1I say [the] truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in [the] Holy Spirit,
2 Corinthians 7:15and his affections are more abundantly towards you, calling to mind the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
Galatians 1:20Now what I write to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.
Philippians 2:1If then [there be] any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of [the] Spirit, if any bowels and compassions,
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 →