Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,

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.

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 according as it is righteous for me to think this in behalf of you all, because of my having you in the heart, both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the good news, all of you being fellow-partakers with me of grace. 8 For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ, 9 and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,


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

Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,

Philippians 4:1

So then, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand ye in the Lord, beloved.

2 Timothy 1:4

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

Isaiah 16:11

Therefore my bowels for Moab as a harp do sound, And mine inward parts for Kir-Haresh.

Isaiah 63:15

Look 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.

Jeremiah 31:20

A precious son is Ephraim to Me? A child of delights? For since My speaking against him, I do thoroughly remember him still, Therefore have My bowels been moved for him, I do greatly love him, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Luke 1:78

Through the tender mercies of our God, In which the rising from on high did look upon us,

2 Corinthians 6:12

ye are not straitened in us, and ye are straitened in your own bowels,

2 Corinthians 7:15

and his tender affection is more abundantly toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye did receive him;

2 Corinthians 13:9

for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for -- your perfection!

Galatians 1:20

And the things that I write to you, lo, before God -- I lie not;

Galatians 4:19

my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

Philippians 2:1

If, then, any exhortation is in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

Philippians 2:26

seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed,

Colossians 2:1

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

Colossians 3:12

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

1 Thessalonians 2:5

for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God is witness!)

1 Thessalonians 2:8

so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,

1 John 3:17

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him?

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