⁸ For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

⁹ For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

⁴ Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

¹ Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

¹ I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

¹² Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

⁵ For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:

⁸ So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

¹² Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:

²⁰ Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.

¹⁷ But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

¹ For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

²⁶ For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.

¹⁵ Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

²⁰ Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

⁷⁸ Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,

¹² Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

¹⁵ And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

⁹ For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

²⁰ Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.

¹⁹ My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

¹ If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

¹¹ Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.