Ephesians 3:1

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Luke 21:12

“But before all these things, they will seize you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and rulers for My name’s sake.

Acts 21:33

Then the commander came and arrested him, and ordered that he be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done.

Acts 23:18

So he took him to the commander and said, “Paul the prisoner sent for me and asked me to bring you this young man who has something to tell you.”

Acts 26:29

Paul said, “I pray to God that not only you, whether in a short or long time, but all who hear me this day, might become what I am, except for these chains.”

Acts 9:15

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way. For this man is a chosen vessel of Mine, to bear My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before the Israelites.

2 Corinthians 1:6

If we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effective in enduring the same sufferings which we also suffer. Or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

2 Corinthians 10:1

Now I, Paul, who am lowly in presence among you but bold toward you while absent, appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, often facing death.

Galatians 5:11

Brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased.

Galatians 5:2

Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.

Galatians 5:24

Those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Ephesians 3:11

according to the eternal purpose which He completed in Christ Jesus our Lord,

Ephesians 3:13

Therefore I ask you not to lose heart at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

Ephesians 3:8

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

Ephesians 4:1

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, exhort you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you were called.

Ephesians 6:20

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

Philippians 1:7

It is right for me to think this of you all because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonments and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are fellow partakers of my grace.

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake and fill up in my flesh that which is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church.

Colossians 4:18

I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you. Amen.

Colossians 4:3

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 chains,

2 Timothy 1:16

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains.

2 Timothy 1:8

So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, His prisoner. But share in the sufferings of the gospel by the power of God,

Philemon 1:1

Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon, our beloved fellow laborer,

Philemon 1:23

Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,

Philemon 1:9

yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you —I, Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ —

Revelation 2:10

Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tried, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.