Acts 28:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

This cause

Acts 28:17

Acts 10:29

For the

Acts 23:6

Acts 24:15

Acts 26:6

This chain

General references

Philippians 1:13

Bible References

This cause

And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the principals of the Jews together, and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

Therefore I came unto you without doubting, as soon as I was sent for; I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?

For the

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee, and of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

and have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers;

This chain

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

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

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

so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace and in all other places;

The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has annulled death, and has brought life and incorruption to light through the gospel,

in which I suffer trouble, like unto an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds,

General references

so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace and in all other places;