New Revised Standard Version
for he has been longing for all of you, and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill.

Contemporary English Version
but now he is eager to see you. He is worried, because you heard he was sick.

New American Bible
For he has been longing for all of you and was distressed because you heard that he was ill.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For indeed he longed after you all: and was sad, for that you had heard that he was sick.

For indeed he longed after you all: and was sad, for that you had heard that he was sick.

he longed.

Philippians 1:3,8 I give thanks to my God in every remembrance of you: . . .

Philippians 4:1 Therefore my dearly beloved brethren and most desired, my joy and my crown: so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

2 Samuel 13:39 And king David ceased to pursue after Absalom, because he was comforted concerning the death of Ammon.

Romans 1:11 For I long to see you that I may impart unto you some spiritual grace, to strengthen you:

2 Corinthians 9:14 And in their praying for you, being desirous of you, because of the excellent grace of God in you.

full.

Job 9:27 If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.

Psalm 69:20 In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none.

Proverbs 12:25 Grief in the heart of a man shall bring him low, but with a good word he shall be made glad.

Isaiah 61:3 To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify him.

Matthew 11:28 Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you.

Matthew 26:37 And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to grow sorrowful and to be sad.

Romans 9:2 That I have great sadness and continual sorrow in my heart.

1 Peter 1:6 Wherein you shalt greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations:

ye had.

2 Samuel 24:17 And David said to the Lord, when he saw the angel striking the people: It is I; I am he that have sinned, I have done wickedly: these that are the sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I beseech thee, be turned against me, and against my father's house.

John 11:35,36 And Jesus wept. . . .

Acts 21:13 Then Paul answered and said: What do you mean, weeping and afflicting my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but to die also in Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that rejoice: weep with them that weep.

1 Corinthians 12:26 And if one member suffer any thing, all the members suffer with it: or if one member glory, all the members rejoice with it.

Galatians 6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ.

Ephesians 3:13 Wherefore I pray you not to faint at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.