Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies 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.
Darby Translation
For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of Christ Jesus.
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.
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 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace. 8 For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus. 9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
Cross References
Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you
Romans 9:1
I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,
Philippians 4:1
Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.
2 Timothy 1:4
longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
Isaiah 16:11
Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.
Isaiah 63:15
Look 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.
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him," says the LORD.
Luke 1:78
because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,
2 Corinthians 6:12
You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.
2 Corinthians 7:15
His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
2 Corinthians 13:9
For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
Galatians 1:20
Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I'm not lying.
Galatians 4:19
My children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you?
Philippians 2:1
If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
Philippians 2:26
since he longed for you all, and was very troubled, because you had heard that he was sick.
Colossians 2:1
For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
1 John 3:17
But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?