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Ephesians 6:20

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For which I am an ambassador in a chain, so that therein I may be bold to speak according as I ought.

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For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting by us. For Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God.

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

Wherein I labour even unto bands, as an evildoer; but the word of God is not bound.

As it is meet for me to think this for you all, for that I have you in my heart; and that in my bands, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my joy.

And Paul said: I would to God, that both in a little and in much, not only thou, but also all that hear me, this day, should become such as I also am, except these bands.

In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus: because he hath often refreshed me, and hath not been ashamed of my chain:

But having suffered many things before, and been shamefully treated (as you know) at Philippi, we had confidence in our God, to speak unto you the gospel of God in much carefulness.

According to my expectation and hope; that in nothing I shall be confounded, but with all confidence, as always, so now also shall Christ be magnified in my body, wither it be by life, or by death.

And for me, that speech may be given me, that I may open my mouth with confidence, to make known the mystery of the gospel.

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

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

Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, without prohibition.

For this cause therefore I desired to see you, and to speak to you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain.

But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men.

The messenger of the wicked shall fall into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.

Dearly beloved, taking all care to write unto you concerning your common salvation, I was under a necessity to write unto you: to beseech you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

I beseech thee for my son, whom I have begotten in my bands, Onesimus,

Then the tribune coming near, took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains: and demanded who he was, and what he had done.

CRY, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their wicked doings and the house of Jacob their sins.

Thou therefore gird up thy loins and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee. Be not afraid at their presence: for I will make thee not to fear their countenance.

Behold, they that see shall cry without: the angels of peace shall weep bitterly.

The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, after that Nabuzardan the general had let him go from Rama, when he had taken him, being bound with chains, among all them that were carried away from Jerusalem and Juda, and were carried to Babylon.

Having therefore such hope, we use much confidence:

Praying withal for us also, that God may open unto us a door of speech to speak the mystery of Christ (for which also I am bound;)

For charity sake I rather beseech, whereas thou art such a one, as Paul an old man, and now a prisoner also of Jesus Christ.




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