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

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

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

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