Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 charity may more and more abound in knowledge, and in all understanding:
Cross References
Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven, and behold from thy holy habitation and the place of thy glory: where is thy zeal, and thy strength, the multitude of thy bowels, and of thy mercies? they have held back themselves from me.
Luke 1:78Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, in which the Orient from on high hath visited us:
Romans 9:1And not only she. But when Rebecca also had conceived at once, of Isaac our father.
2 Corinthians 7:15And his bowels are more abundantly towards you; remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you have received him.
Galatians 1:20Now the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I lie not.
Philippians 2:1If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if any society of the spirit, if any bowels of commiseration:
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 →