Philippians 1:8
For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
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Cross References
Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where is your zeal and your strength, the sounding of your bowels and of your mercies toward me? are they restrained?
Luke 1:78Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high has visited us,
Romans 9:1I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, (o. pneuma)
2 Corinthians 7:15And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling all of you received him.
Galatians 1:20Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
Philippians 2:1If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, (o. agape) if any fellowship of the Spirit, (o. pneuma) if any bowels 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 →