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

Jeremiah 36:5

Philippians 1:13

Bible References

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Now I, Paul, myself beseech you by the meekness and clemency of the Christ (who in presence am low among you, but being absent am bold toward you)

Behold, I, Paul, say unto you that if ye become circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

The

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.

But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.

Then the tribunal came near and took him and commanded him to be bound with two chains and demanded to know who he was and what he had done.

And Paul said, I desire before God that by little or by much, not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were such as I am, except these bonds.

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,

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more, in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

Even as it is right for me to think this of you all because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are joint partakers of my grace.

who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fulfill in my flesh that which is lacking of the tribulations of the Christ for his body's sake, which is the congregation ,

praying also together for us that God would open unto us the door of the word, to speak the mystery of the Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

Therefore be not thou ashamed to give testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel by the power of God,

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

Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy, our brother, unto Philemon, our dearly beloved and fellowlabourer,

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer; behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days; be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

General references

And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:

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