Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,
Young's Literal Translation
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 yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,
Cross References
Isaiah 63:15Look attentively from the heavens, And see from Thy holy and beauteous habitation, Where [is] Thy zeal and Thy might? The multitude of Thy bowels and Thy mercies Towards me have refrained themselves.
Luke 1:78Through the tender mercies of our God, In which the rising from on high did look upon us,
Romans 9:1Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,
2 Corinthians 7:15and his tender affection is more abundantly toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye did receive him;
Galatians 1:20And the things that I write to you, lo, before God — I lie not;
Philippians 2:1If, then, any exhortation [is] in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of 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 →