Bowels

• Concubinage

And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own Bowels shall be thine heir.

And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy Bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

• Chambers
• House

And Joseph made haste; for his Bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy Bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

• Covenant
• Government
• Saul

And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy Bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee. read more And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever. show less

And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my Bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.

But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his Bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her Bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.

And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy Bowels, until thy Bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.

And after all this the LORD smote him in his Bowels with an incurable disease.

And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his Bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

• Children

And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own Bowels slew him there with the sword.

Yet his meat in his Bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

My Bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

• Tender
• Heart

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my Bowels.

By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's Bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his Bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my Bowels were moved for him.

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

Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy Bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the Bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

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?

• Compassionate
• Heart

My Bowels, my Bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

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.

Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my Bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my Bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy Bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

• Punishment
• Stumbling-block
• Stumbling

They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their Bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

• Judas
• Repentance
• Judas

Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his Bowels gushed out.

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

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

• Church

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

• Holy
• Character

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

• Joy

For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the Bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

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

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

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?