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Ephesians 6:20

Lighthouse Bible 2006

For which I am an ambassador in chains: that in it 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 outside: 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, so that I do not confound you before them.

The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after 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 taken away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were taken 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 reason therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because 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 should 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 pleaded with you by us: we appeal to you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

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

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

And for me, that speech 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 shall I 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 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.

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:

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

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

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

For which I suffer trouble, as an evildoer, even to being bound; but the word of God is not bound.

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

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.

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

Beloved, when I applied myself to write to you of the common salvation, I felt it necessary to write to you and urge you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints.




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