Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
World English Bible British
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
9This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
Cross References
Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained towards me.
Luke 1:78because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,
Romans 9:1I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit
2 Corinthians 7:15His affection is more abundantly towards you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
Galatians 1:20Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.
Philippians 2:1If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
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 →