Philippians 1:8
For God is my recorde, howe I long after you all from the very heart roote in Iesus Christ.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 loue may abound, yet more and more in knowledge, and in all iudgement,
Cross References
Isaiah 63:15Looke downe from heauen, and beholde from the dwelling place of thine holines, and of thy glory. Where is thy zeale and thy strength, the multitude of thy mercies, and of thy compassions? they are restrained from me.
Luke 1:78Through ye tender mercy of our God, wherby the day spring from an hie hath visited vs,
Romans 9:1I say the trueth in Christ, I lye not, my conscience bearing mee witnes in the holy Ghost,
2 Corinthians 7:15And his inwarde affection is more aboundant toward you, when he remembreth the obedience of you all, and howe with feare and trembling ye receiued him.
Galatians 1:20Nowe the things which I write vnto you, beholde, I witnes before God, that I lie not.
Philippians 2:1If there be therfore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of loue, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any compassion and mercie,
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 →