Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
Webster 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
9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
Cross References
Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies towards me? are they restrained?
Luke 1:78Through the tender mercy of our God; by which the day-spring from on high hath visited us,
Romans 9:1I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me testimony in the Holy Spirit,
2 Corinthians 7:15And his tender affection is more abundant towards you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
Galatians 1:20Now the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I lie not.
Philippians 2:1If there is therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, 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 →