Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how I long for you all with [the] yearnings of Jesus Christ,
Literal Standard 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 yet more and more in full knowledge, and all discernment,
Cross References
Isaiah 63:15Look attentively from the heavens, || And see from Your holy and beautiful habitation, || Where [is] Your zeal and Your might? The multitude of Your bowels and Your mercies—Are they restrained?
Luke 1:78Through the yearnings of our God, || In which the rising from on high looked on us,
Romans 9:1Truth I say in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,
2 Corinthians 7:15and his yearnings are more abundantly toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling;
Galatians 1:20And the things that I write to you, behold, before God—I do not lie;
Philippians 2:1If, then, any exhortation [is] in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of [the] Spirit, if any yearnings 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 →