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Ephesians 6:20

American King James Version (1999)

For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

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A wicked messenger falls into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.

Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

You therefore gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound you before them.

The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive to Babylon.

Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.

And Paul said, I would to God, that not only you, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.

For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be you reconciled to God.

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation with which you are called,

And for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,

According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.

Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my grace.

With praying also for us, that God would open to us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:

That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as you know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God with much contention.

The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:

Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even to bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

I beseech you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

Yet for love's sake I rather beseech you, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write to you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints.




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