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

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. {for you: Gr. for your souls}

I speak not {this} to condemn {you}: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with {you}.

I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.

Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward {is} with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, {he is} a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and {is} as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: {Yea...: or, How much more}

Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether {he be} bond or free.

O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth. {in my mouth: Heb. in my palate}

I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer. {be...: Heb. breathe}

I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

I speak not {this} to condemn {you}: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with {you}.

And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.

Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn {you}.

Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.

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.