For he has been longing for all of you and is distressed because you heard he was ill.
Cross References
Philippians 2:25But I thought it necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my needs.
Philippians 2:27He was sick indeed, nearly unto death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.
Treasury of Scripture
For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that you had heard that he had been sick.
he longed.
Philippians 1:3,8
I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, …
Philippians 4:1
Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
2 Samuel 13:39
And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
full.
Job 9:27
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
Psalm 69:20
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Proverbs 12:25
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
ye had.
2 Samuel 24:17
And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
John 11:35,36
Jesus wept…
Acts 21:13
Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
