Ephesians 3:1

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Ephesians 3:1

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

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2 Corinthians 10:1

Galatians 5:2

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General references

Philippians 1:13

Bible References

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Now I appeal to you in person, by the gentleness and fairness of Christ, I, Paul, who am so "condescending when face to face with you, but so courageous toward you when far away!"

Here is what I am saying to you: If you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ can do you no good.

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So I, a prisoner for the Lord's sake, entreat you to live lives worthy of the call you have received,

for the sake of which I am an envoy in prison: so that, when I tell it, I may speak as courageously as I ought.

But before all this takes place, people will arrest you and persecute you, and turn you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.

Then the colonel came up and seized Paul and ordered him to be bound with two chains; he then asked who he was and what he had done.

Paul answered, "In brief or at length, I would to God that not only you but all my hearers today were what I am -- excepting these chains!"

Three days later, he invited the leading men of the Jews to come to see him, and when they came, he said to them, "Brothers, I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our forefathers; yet at Jerusalem I was turned over to the Romans as a prisoner.

Are they ministers of Christ? So am I. I am talking like a man that has gone crazy -- as such I am superior! -- serving Him with labors greater by far, with far more imprisonments, with floggings vastly worse, and often at the point of death.

And I have a right to think this way about you, because I always have you in my heart, whether shut up in prison or out defending and vindicating the good news, for you are sharers with me of God's favor.

I am now glad to be suffering for you, and in my own person I am filling in what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for His body, that is, the church.

At the same time keep on praying for me too, that God may open the door of opportunity for the message, so that I may tell the open secret about Christ, for the sake of which I am held a prisoner,

So you must never be ashamed of me His prisoner, but suffer for the good news in fellowship with me and by the power of God.

for the sake of which I am suffering hardships even to the extent of wearing chains as though I were a criminal. But God's message is not in chains.

Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and my brother Timothy, to our dearly loved fellow-worker Philemon,

Do not be so afraid of what you are to suffer. See! The devil is going to throw some of you into prison to be tested there and for ten days to suffer pressing troubles. Each one of you must prove to be faithful, even if you have to die, and I will give you the crown of life.

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in this way it has become well known throughout the Imperial Guard and to all the rest here that I am a prisoner in the service of Christ,