Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how I love you in the bowels of Jesus the Messiah.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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
Cross References
Luke 1:78through the compassion of the mercy of our God; whereby the day-spring from on high will visit us,
Romans 9:1I say the truth in Messiah, and do not misrepresent; and my conscience beareth me witness in the Holy Spirit;
2 Corinthians 7:15and also his bowels are the more enlarged towards you, while he remembereth the submission of you all, and how ye received him with fear and trembling.
Galatians 1:20In the things which I am writing to you, behold, before God! I lie not.
Philippians 2:1If, therefore, ye have consolation in the Messiah, or if a commingling of hearts in love, or if a fellowship of the Spirit, or if compassions and sympathies;
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 →