Philippians 1:8

Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

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Philippians 1:3
I thank my God whenever I remember you,

Philippians 1:4
always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,

Philippians 1:5
for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;

Philippians 1:6
being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Philippians 1:7
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.

Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

Philippians 1:9
This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

Philippians 1:10
so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

Philippians 1:11
being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 1:1
Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

Philippians 1:27
Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

Philippians 2:16
holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

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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 always in my prayers,

2 Corinthians 1:23
But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

Galatians 1:20
Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.

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),

2 Corinthians 11:31
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.

Romans 9:1
I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

Job 16:19
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.

2 Corinthians 11:11
Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.

1 Thessalonians 2:10
You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

1 Timothy 2:7
to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

2 Corinthians 12:19
Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

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 Corinthians 15:31
I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

2 Corinthians 1:18
But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”

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Philippians 4:1
Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

Philippians 2:26
since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.

Romans 1:11
For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;

2 Corinthians 9:14
while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

2 Timothy 1:4
longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

1 Thessalonians 3:6
But Timothy just now come to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you.

2 Samuel 13:39
King David longed to go out to Absalom, for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.

Philippians 1:25
Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,

Genesis 31:30
Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

2 Samuel 23:15
David said longingly, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”

Romans 15:32
that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

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;

1 Thessalonians 2:17
But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

1 Thessalonians 3:10
night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

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Philippians 2:1
If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

1 John 3:17
But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

Luke 1:78
because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,

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.

Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

Genesis 43:30
Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.

1 Kings 3:26
Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”

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.

Philemon 1:12
I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

Psalms 25:6
Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.

Song of Solomon 5:4
My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.

Isaiah 16:11
Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

Hosea 11:8
“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

Philemon 1:20
Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.

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2 Corinthians 6:11
Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.

2 Corinthians 6:12
You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

2 Corinthians 12:15
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

1 Samuel 18:3
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

Acts 20:38
sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

Romans 16:4
who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.

2 Timothy 1:17
but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me

2 Corinthians 7:3
I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

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Hebrews 6:16
For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

James 5:12
But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear— not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

Matthew 5:34
but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;

Matthew 26:63
But Jesus stayed silent. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

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Galatians 4:19
My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

Philippians 2:17
Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.

Philippians 2:24
But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.

Romans 1:12
that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

2 Corinthians 5:2
For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,

Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

1 Peter 2:2
as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,

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