Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
For God [is] my witness, that I long for all of you with the affection 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.
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 just as it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, [since] both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you are sharers of grace with me. 8 For God [is] my witness, that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus. 9 And this I pray: that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
Cross References
Romans 1:9
For God, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, is my witness, how constantly I make mention of you,
Romans 9:1
I am telling the truth in Christ--[I am] not lying; my conscience bears witness to me in the Holy Spirit--
Philippians 4:1
So then, my beloved and greatly desired brothers, my joy and crown, thus stand firm in the Lord, dear friends.
2 Timothy 1:4
longing to see you [as I] remember your tears, so that I may be filled with joy,
Isaiah 16:11
Therefore my {heart moans} like harp for Moab and my inner parts for Kir-heres.
Isaiah 63:15
Look from heaven, and see from the lofty residence of your holiness and glory. Where [are] your zeal and strength? {Your compassion} and mercy to me hold themselves back.
Jeremiah 31:20
[Is] Ephraim my dear son, or [the] child of [my] delight? For {as often as} I have earnestly spoken against him, I still remember him. {Therefore} my bowels are turbulent for him, surely I will have compassion on him," {declares} Yahweh.
Luke 1:78
because of the merciful compassion of our God by which the dawn will visit to help us from on high,
2 Corinthians 6:12
You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your affections.
2 Corinthians 7:15
And his affection for you is all the more [when he] remembers the obedience of all of you as you welcomed him with fear and trembling.
2 Corinthians 13:9
For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong, and we pray for this: your maturity.
Galatians 1:20
(Now [the things] which I am writing to you, behold, [I assure you] before God that I am not lying.)
Galatians 4:19
My children, for whom I am having birth pains again, until Christ is formed in you!
Philippians 2:1
Therefore, if [there is] any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,
Philippians 2:26
because he was longing for all of you and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.
Colossians 2:1
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on behalf of you, and those in Laodicea, and all those who have not seen my face {in person},
Colossians 3:12
Therefore, as [the] chosen of God, holy and [dearly] loved, put on affection, compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience,
1 Thessalonians 2:5
{For never} did we come with a word of flattery, just as you know, nor with a pretext of greediness (God [is] witness),
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Longing for you in this way, we determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own souls, because you had become dear to us.
1 John 3:17
But whoever has the world's material possessions and observes his brother {in need} and shuts his heart against him, how does the love of God reside in him?