'Behalf' in the Bible

In that day you will ask in My name. I am not telling you that I will make requests to the Father on your behalf.

Then they went out from the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to be dishonored on behalf of the Name.

We have received grace and apostleship through Him to bring about the obedience of faith among all the nations, on behalf of His name,

For I say that the Messiah became a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises to the fathers,

Now I appeal to you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join with me in fervent prayers to God on my behalf.

while you join in helping us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gift that came to us through the prayers of many.

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, certain that God is appealing through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God.”

For this reason, I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—

So then I ask you not to be discouraged over my afflictions on your behalf, for they are your glory.

For it has been given to you on Christ’s behalf not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him,

You learned this from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow slave. He is a faithful servant of the Messiah on your behalf,

Jesus has entered there on our behalf as a forerunner, because He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

He exercises all the authority of the first beast on his behalf and compels the earth and those who live on it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.

He deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that he is permitted to perform on behalf of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image of the beast who had the sword wound and yet lived.