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Ephesians 3:1

Lighthouse Bible 2006

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

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But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.

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.

So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and said, Paul the prisoner called me to him, and asked me to bring this young man to you, who has something to say to you.

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.

But the Lord said to him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bring my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:

And if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is at work in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

Now I Paul myself plead with you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you:

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abundant, in stripes beyond measure, in prisons more frequent, in danger of death often.

And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then has the offense of the cross ceased.

Behold, I Paul say to you that if you are circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

Therefore I desire that you do not faint at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

To me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, plead with you to walk worthy of the calling with which you are called,

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

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

Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is lacking in the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

The salutation by the hand of me, Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

While 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:

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

Do not be therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be a sharer of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellow worker,

There greet you Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus;

Yet for love’s sake I instead appeal to you, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Fear none of those things which you shall suffer: behold, the devil shall put some of you into prison, that you may be tried; and you shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give you a crown of life.




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