Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For God is my witness, how I long for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.

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, how deeply I miss all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

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.

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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

is
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585

my
μοῦ 
Mou 
my, me, mine, I, mine own
Usage: 313

μάρτυς 
Martus 
Usage: 28

ὡς 
Hos 
as, when, how, as it were, about,
Usage: 417

I long
ἐπιποθέω 
Epipotheo 
Usage: 9

ὑμᾶς 
Humas 
you, ye, for your sakes Trans, not tr,
Usage: 314

all
πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

the bowels
σπλάγχνον 
Splagchnon 
Usage: 11

of Jesus
Ἰησοῦς 
Iesous 
Usage: 969

Devotionals

Devotionals about Philippians 1:8

Images Philippians 1:8

Prayers for Philippians 1:8

Context Readings

Thanksgiving

7 Even as it is right for me to think this of you all because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are joint partakers of my grace. 8 For God is my witness, how I long for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. 9 And this I pray that your charity may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all perception,

Cross References

Romans 1:9

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I always remember you in my prayers,

Romans 9:1

I say the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,

Philippians 4:1

Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

2 Timothy 1:4

greatly desiring to see thee (being mindful of thy tears), that I may be filled with joy,

Isaiah 16:11

Therefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab and my inward parts for Kirharesh.

Isaiah 63:15

Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory; where is thy zeal and thy strength, the feeling of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

Jeremiah 31:20

Peradventure is Ephraim a precious son unto me? Peradventure is he unto me a delightful child? With all this since I spoke of him, I have remembered him constantly. Therefore my bowels are troubled for him; in tenderness I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

Luke 1:78

through the bowels of mercy of our God, whereby the dayspring from on high has visited us

2 Corinthians 6:12

Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

2 Corinthians 7:15

And his inward affection is more abundant toward you while he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

2 Corinthians 13:9

By which we are glad that we are weak and ye are strong, and even so we pray for your perfection.

Galatians 1:20

Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I do not lie.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ is formed in you,

Philippians 2:1

Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

Philippians 2:26

For he longed after you all and was full of heaviness, because ye had heard that he had been sick

Colossians 2:1

For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

Colossians 3:12

Clothed, therefore, (as the elect of God, holy and beloved) with bowels of mercies, with kindness, with humility, with meekness, with tolerance,

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For we were never flatterers in the word, as ye know, nor tainted with covetousness, God is witness,

1 Thessalonians 2:8

loving you so much, that we were willing to give unto you, not only the gospel of God, but even our own souls, because ye are dear unto us.

1 John 3:17

But whosoever has this world's goods and sees his brother have need and shuts up his bowels of compassion from him, how does the charity of God abide in him?

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