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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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!”

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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.

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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.”

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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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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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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.

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;

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.

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