'Behalf' in the Bible

ye also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed upon us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf.

We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but'speak as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart.

We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech you on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

Him who knew no sin he made to be'sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

Show ye therefore unto them in the face of the churches the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf.

for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia hath been prepared for a year past; and your zeal hath stirred up very many of them.

But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, ye may be prepared:

while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, long after you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

On behalf of such a one will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save in my weaknesses.

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,--

And on my behalf, that utterance may be given unto me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,

always in every supplication of mine on behalf of you all making my supplication with joy,

even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.

because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:

even as ye learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,

whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them : for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.