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Ephesians 6:20

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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 trouble, But a faithful ambassador brings health.

Surely their valiant ones shall cry outside, The ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

“Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins.

“Therefore prepare yourself and arise, And speak to them all that I command you. Do not be dismayed before their faces, Lest I dismay 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 bound in chains among all who were carried away captive from Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.

Then the commander came near and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and he asked who he was and what he had done.

And Paul said, “I would to God that not only you, but also all who hear me today, might become both almost and altogether such as I am, except for these chains.”

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

preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence, no one forbidding him.

But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men.

Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech—

Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.

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

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

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

just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.

meanwhile praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains,

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

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

The Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain;

for which I suffer trouble as an evildoer, even to the point of chains; but the word of God is not chained.

I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten while in my chains,

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

By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.




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