Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
For God is my witness how much I long for all of you with the compassion that the Messiah Jesus provides.
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,
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,
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 For it is only right for me to think this way about all of you, because you're constantly on my mind. Both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, all of you are partners with me in this privilege. 8 For God is my witness how much I long for all of you with the compassion that the Messiah Jesus provides. 9 And this is my prayer, that your love will keep on growing more and more with full knowledge and insight,
Cross References
Romans 1:9
For God, whom I serve with my spirit by preaching the gospel about his Son, is my witness how constantly I mention you
Romans 9:1
I am telling the truth because I belong to the Messiah I am not lying, and my conscience confirms it by means of the Holy Spirit.
Philippians 4:1
Therefore, my dear brothers whom I long for, my joy and my victor's crown, this is how you must stand firm in the Lord, dear friends.
2 Timothy 1:4
recalling your tears and longing to see you so that I can be filled with joy.
Isaiah 16:11
Therefore my insides moan like a lyre for Moab, and my innermost being for Kir-hareseth.
Isaiah 63:15
Look down from heaven, and see from your holy and glorious dwelling. Where are your zeal and your might? Where are the yearning of your heart and your compassion? They are held back from me.
Jeremiah 31:20
"Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? Indeed, as often as I've spoken about him, I surely still remember him. Therefore I deeply yearn for him. I'll surely have great compassion on him," declares the LORD.
Luke 1:78
Because of the tender mercy of our God, his light from on high has visited us,
2 Corinthians 6:12
We have not cut you off, but you have cut off your own feelings toward us.
2 Corinthians 7:15
His affection for you is even greater as he remembers how obedient all of you were and how you welcomed him with fear and trembling.
2 Corinthians 13:9
We are glad when we are weak and you are strong. That is what we are praying for your maturity.
Galatians 1:20
(Before God, what I'm writing to you is the truth.)
Galatians 4:19
My children, I am suffering birth pains for you again until the Messiah is formed in you.
Philippians 2:1
Therefore, if there is any encouragement in the Messiah, if there is any comfort of love, if there is any fellowship in the Spirit, if there is any compassion and sympathy,
Philippians 2:26
For he has been longing for all of you and is troubled because you heard that he was sick.
Colossians 2:1
For I want you to know how much I struggle for you, for those in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen me face to face.
Colossians 3:12
Therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
As you know, we did not come with flattering words or with a scheme to make money. God is our witness!
1 Thessalonians 2:8
We cared so deeply for you that we were determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but our very lives. That is how dear you were to us.
1 John 3:17
Whoever has earthly possessions and notices a brother in need and yet withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God be present in him?