Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
New Heart English Bible
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 toward me.
Luke 1:78because of the tender mercy of our God,whereby 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 toward 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 there is therefore 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 →