'Behalf' in the Bible

Then He got up and left the synagogue, and entered Simon’s home. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Him to help her.

This is He on behalf of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.’

In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will request of the Father on your behalf;

I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours;

“I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word;

Now Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was expedient for one man to die on behalf of the people.

For I say that Christ has become a servant to the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God to confirm the promises given to the fathers,

Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you may learn not to exceed what is written, so that no one of you will become arrogant in behalf of one against the other.

you also joining in helping us through your prayers, so that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the favor bestowed on us through the prayers of many.

and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Great is my confidence in you; great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.

So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the offender nor for the sake of the one offended, but that your earnestness on our behalf might be made known to you in the sight of God.

But thanks be to God who puts the same earnestness on your behalf in the heart of Titus.

while they also, by prayer on your behalf, yearn for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

On behalf of such a man I will boast; but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in regard to my weaknesses.

Therefore I ask you not to lose heart at my tribulations on your behalf, for they are your glory.

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

just as you learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow bond-servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf,

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions.

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on your behalf and for those who are at Laodicea, and for all those who have not personally seen my face,

First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men,

whom I wished to keep with me, so that on your behalf he might minister to me in my imprisonment for the gospel;

For every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in things pertaining to God, in order to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;