Now then are we messengers in the room of Christ: even as though God did beseech you through us. So pray we you, in Christ's stead, that ye be at one with God:

Bonds

For this cause, I Paul the servant of Jesus Christ am in bonds for your sakes, which are heathen -

I therefore which am in bonds for the Lord's sake, exhort you, that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

Then said David, "I will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness unto me." And thereupon David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants over the death of his father. Now when David's servants were come into the land of the children of Ammon,

And Paul said, "I would to God that not only thou: but also all that hear me today, were not somewhat only, but altogether such as I am; except these bonds. I might persuade not thee only, but all them that hear me this day, to be such as I am, these bonds except."

For this cause have I called for you, even to see you, and to speak with you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain."

as it becometh me so to judge of you all, because I have you in my heart, and have you also every one companions of grace with me, even in my bonds as I defend, and establish the gospel.

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

wherein I suffer trouble as an evil doer, even unto bonds. But the word of God was not bound.

I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I begat in my bonds,

Boldly

and for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to utter the secrets of the gospel,

Cry with the throat and spare not. Lift up thy voice as a trumpet, and tell my people their offences and the house of Jacob their sins.

And the LORD answered me thus, "Say not so, 'I am too young': For thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee unto, and whatsoever I command thee, that shalt thou speak.

Yea, I will send thee unto a people that have rough visages and stiff stomachs: unto whom thou shalt say on this manner, 'This the LORD God himself hath spoken,'

What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye on the housetops.

Peter and the other apostles answered, and said, "We ought more to obey God than men.

preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concerned the Lord Jesus with all confidence, unforbidden.

that I may utter it, as it becometh me to speak.

as I heartily look for and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed: but that with all confidence, as always in times past, even so now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be through life, or else death.

but even after that we had suffered before and were shamefully entreated at Philippi - as ye well know - then were we bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God, with much striving.

Hereby are we assured of love: because he left his life for us: And therefore we ought also to give our lives for our brethren.

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, to exhort you, that ye should continually labour in the faith, which was once given unto the saints.

General references

And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, "I am in prison, so that I may not come into the house of the LORD:

So that my bonds in Christ are manifest throughout all the judgment hall: and in all other places;

Brethren, pray for us.