Ephesians 3:1

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Summary

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

The

General references

Jeremiah 36:5

Philippians 1:13

Bible References

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And I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and equity of Christ, who, in face truly low with you, but at a distance bold towards you:

Behold, I Paul say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

The

Therefore I, the imprisoned in the Lord, beseech you to walk Worthy of the calling which ye were called,

For which I am an ambassador in perplexity: that in it I might speak freely, as I ought to speak.

And before all these shall they cast their hands upon you, and drive out, delivering to assemblies, and prisons, being brought before kings and leaders for my name's sake.

Then the captain of a thousand, having drawn near, took him, and commanded to be bound with two chains; and inquired who he might be, and what he had done.

And Paul said, I would pray to God also in little, and in much, not only thee, but also all hearing me this day to become such, of what kind I also am, besides these bonds.

And it was after three days Paul called together them being first of the Jews: and they having come together, he said to them, Men, brethren, I having done nothing against the people, or customs of the fathers, I was delivered in bonds from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often.

As it is just for me to think this concerning you all, for my having you in the heart; both in my bonds, and in the justification and confirmation of the good news, ye all being partakers of grace with me.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill again the necessities of the pressures of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church.

Praying together also for us, that God would open to us a door of the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, by which also I was bound;

Therefore shouldest thou not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his imprisoned: but partake of afflictions with the good news according to the power of God;

In which I suffer ill treatment, to bonds, as an evil doer; but the word of God has not been bound.

PAUL, imprisoned of Jesus Christ, 'Timothy the brother, to Philemon, dearly beloved, and cooperating,

Neither be afraid of what things thou art about to suffer: behold, the accuser is about to cast of you into prison, that ye might be tried; and ye shall have pressure ten days: be thou faithful until death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

General references

And Jeremiah will command Baruch, saying, I being shut up shall not be able to go into the house of Jehovah:

So that my bonds in Christ were manifest in the whole pretorium, and to all the rest;