Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of Christ Jesus.
New American Standard Bible
For
King James Version
For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
Holman Bible
For God is my witness,
International Standard Version
For God is my witness how much I long for all of you with the compassion that the Messiah Jesus provides.
A Conservative Version
For God is my witness, how I long for you all in bowels of Jesus Christ.
American Standard Version
For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
Amplified
For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus [whose great love fills me].
An Understandable Version
For God is my witness that I long to see you with the [same] affection that Christ Jesus has [for you].
Anderson New Testament
For God is my witness how ardently I love you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
Bible in Basic English
For God is my witness, how my love goes out to you all in the loving mercies of Christ Jesus.
Common New Testament
For God is my witness, how I long for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for God is my witness, that I love you with a christian tenderness.
Godbey New Testament
For God is my witness, how I long after you in the affections of Jesus Christ.
Goodspeed New Testament
For God is my witness how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus himself.
John Wesley New Testament
For God is my witness, how I long for you all, with the bowels of Jesus Christ.
Julia Smith Translation
For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
King James 2000
For God is my witness, how greatly I long after you all in the affections of Jesus Christ.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For God [is] my witness, that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
Modern King James verseion
For God is my witness how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For God beareth me record how greatly I long after you all from the very heart-root in Jesus Christ.
Moffatt New Testament
(God is my witness that I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus himself!)
Montgomery New Testament
God is my witness how I yearn for you all in the tenderness of Christ Jesus.
NET Bible
For God is my witness that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
New Heart English Bible
For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
Noyes New Testament
For God is my witness how much I long for you all in the tender affection of Christ Jesus.
Sawyer New Testament
For God is my witness, how much I desire you all with the tender affections of Christ Jesus.
The Emphasized Bible
For God is, my witness, how I long for you all in the tender affections of Christ Jesus.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For God is my witness, how earnestly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
Twentieth Century New Testament
God will bear me witness how I yearn over you all with the tenderness of Christ Jesus.
Webster
For God is my witness, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
Weymouth New Testament
For God is my witness how I yearn over all of you with tender Christian affection.
Williams New Testament
For God is my witness how I never stop yearning for all of you with the affection Christ Jesus inspires.
World English Bible
For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
Worrell New Testament
For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the tender affections of Christ Jesus.
Worsley New Testament
For God is my witness, how much I long for you all, as with the bowels of Jesus Christ.
Youngs Literal Translation
For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,
Themes
Bowels » Figurative » Of the sensibilities
Brotherly love » Special teachings concerning » Examples of
Love » Love, brotherly special teachings concerning » Examples of
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Philippians 1:8
Prayers for Philippians 1:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Thanksgiving
7 as it is righteous for me to think this as to you all, because ye have me in your hearts, and that both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the glad tidings ye are all participators in my grace. 8 For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of Christ Jesus. 9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all intelligence,
Cross References
Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the glad tidings of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,
Romans 9:1
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,
Philippians 4:1
So that, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, thus stand fast in the Lord, beloved.
2 Timothy 1:4
earnestly desiring to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
Isaiah 16:11
Therefore my bowels sound like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirheres.
Isaiah 63:15
Look down from the heavens, 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 tender mercies? Are they restrained toward me?
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim a dear son unto me? is he a child of delights? For whilst I have been speaking against him, I do constantly remember him still. Therefore my bowels are troubled for him: I will certainly have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah.
Luke 1:78
on account of the bowels of mercy of our God; wherein the dayspring from on high has visited us,
2 Corinthians 6:12
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your affections;
2 Corinthians 7:15
and his affections are more abundantly towards you, calling to mind the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
2 Corinthians 13:9
For we rejoice when we may be weak and ye may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.
Galatians 1:20
Now what I write to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.
Galatians 4:19
my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ shall have been formed in you:
Philippians 2:1
If then there be any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and compassions,
Philippians 2:26
since he had a longing desire after you all, and was distressed because ye had heard that he was sick;
Colossians 2:1
For I would have you know what combat I have for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh;
Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For we have not at any time been among you with flattering discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for covetousness, God is witness;
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Thus, yearning over you, we had found our delight in having imparted to you not only the glad tidings of God, but our own lives also, because ye had become beloved of us.
1 John 3:17
But whoso may have the world's substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love of God in him?