Ephesians 6:20

World English Bible (2000)

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

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  • 2 Cor 5:20 : 20 We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
  • Acts 28:20 : 20 For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain."
  • Phil 1:7 : 7 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.
  • Eph 3:1 : 1 For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,
  • Col 4:4 : 4 that I may reveal it as I ought to speak.
  • Phlm 1:10 : 10 I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,
  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
  • Jude 1:3 : 3 Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
  • 1 Thess 2:2 : 2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.
  • 2 Tim 1:16 : 16 May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,
  • 2 Tim 2:9 : 9 in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God's word isn't chained.
  • Eph 4:1 : 1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
  • Eph 6:19 : 19 on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,
  • Phil 1:13-14 : 13 so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ; 14 and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.
  • Phil 1:20 : 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
  • Acts 28:31 : 31 preaching the Kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.
  • 2 Sam 10:2-6 : 2 David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me." So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon. 3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn't David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?" 4 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. 5 When they told it to David, he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, "Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return." 6 When the children of Ammon saw that they were become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.
  • Prov 13:17 : 17 A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.
  • Isa 33:7 : 7 Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
  • Isa 58:1 : 1 "Cry aloud, don't spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
  • Jer 1:7-8 : 7 But Yahweh said to me, "Don't say, 'I am a child;' for to whoever I shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak. 8 Don't be afraid because of them; for I am with you to deliver you," says Yahweh.
  • Jer 1:17 : 17 "You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and speak to them all that I command you. Don't be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.
  • Ezek 2:4-7 : 4 The children are impudent and stiff-hearted: I am sending you to them; and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh. 5 They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house), yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them. 6 You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell among scorpions: don't be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house. 7 You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.
  • Matt 10:27-28 : 27 What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops. 28 Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
  • Acts 5:29 : 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.
  • Acts 21:33 : 33 Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.
  • Acts 26:29 : 29 Paul said, "I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these bonds."

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