Ephesians 6:20

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 13:17

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.

Isaiah 33:7

Behold, their valiant ones cry in the streets; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

Isaiah 58:1

Cry aloud, do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show My people their transgression and the house of Jacob their sins.

Jeremiah 1:17

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

Jeremiah 40:1

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 bound in chains among all who were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah who were being carried away captive to Babylon.

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 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 28:20

For this reason I have asked to see you and speak with you, because I am bound with this chain for the hope of Israel.”

Acts 28:31

boldly and freely preaching the kingdom of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 5:29

Peter and the other apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

2 Corinthians 3:12

Seeing then that we have such hope, we speak with great boldness,

2 Corinthians 5:20

So we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us. We implore you in Christ’s stead: Be reconciled to God.

Ephesians 3:1

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

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 6:19

Pray for me, that the power to speak may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel,

Philippians 1:20

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

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 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,

Colossians 4:4

that I may reveal it clearly, as I ought to speak.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

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

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 2:9

in which I suffer trouble like a criminal, even with chains. But the word of God is not bound.

Philemon 1:10

I appeal to you on behalf of my son Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment,

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 —

1 John 3:16

By this we know the love of God: that He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Jude 1:3

Beloved, while I diligently tried to write to you of the salvation we have in common, I found it necessary to write and appeal to you to contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints.