⁸ For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,

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,

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

¹ So then, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand ye in the Lord, beloved.

¹ Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,

¹² Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

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!)

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,

¹² whom I did send again, and thou him (that is, my own bowels) receive,

²⁰ Yes, brother, may I have profit of thee in the Lord; refresh my bowels in the Lord;

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?

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,

²⁶ seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed,

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.

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.

⁷⁸ Through the tender mercies of our God, In which the rising from on high did look upon us,

¹² ye are not straitened in us, and ye are straitened in your `own' bowels,

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;

⁹ for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for -- your perfection!

²⁰ And the things that I write to you, lo, before God -- I lie not;

¹⁹ my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

¹ If, then, any exhortation `is' in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

¹¹ Therefore my bowels for Moab as a harp do sound, And mine inward parts for Kir-Haresh.