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Ephesians 6:20

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for which I am an ambassador in bonds; so 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 mighty ones shall cry outside; the messengers of peace shall weep bitterly.

Cry aloud, do not spare, lift up your voice like a ram's horn, and show My people their rebellion, and the house of Jacob their sins.

And you must gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you. Do not be terrified at their faces, lest I prostrate you before them.

This is the Word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, after Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him, being bound in chains, among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were being exiled to Babylon.

Then going near, the chiliarch laid hold on him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains. And he demanded who he was and what he had done.

And Paul said, I would pray to God, both in a little and in much, that not only you, but also all hearing me today to become as I also am, except for these bonds.

For this cause, then, I called for you, to see and to speak with you. For I have this chain around me for the hope of Israel.

proclaiming the kingdom of God, and teaching those things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all freedom, and without hindrance.

And Peter and the apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

Then since we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.

Then we are ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as God exhorting through us, we beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

For this cause, I, Paul, am the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you nations,

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

And pray for me, that utterance 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 hope that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but as always now Christ shall be magnified in my body with all boldness, whether it is by life or by death.

even as it is righteous for me to think this of you all, because you have me in your heart, inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you are all partakers of my grace.

praying together about us also, that God may open to us a door of the Word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I also have been bound,

that I may make it clear, as I ought to speak.

But also suffering before, being insulted in Philippi, as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much agony.

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

in which I suffer ill as an evildoer, even to bonds. But the Word of God is not chained.

I entreat you for my child Onesimus, whom I have fathered in my bonds,

rather through love I entreat, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

By this we have known the love of God, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Having made all haste to write to you about the common salvation, beloved, I had need to write to you to exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.




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