Ephesians 3:1 Cross References - Worrell

¹ For this cause I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you gentiles,

¹² And, before all these things, they will lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up into the synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for My name's sake.

³³ Then the chief captain, coming near, laid hold of him, and ordered that he be bound with two chains; and he was inquiring who he was, and what he had done.

¹⁸ So he, taking him with him, conducted him to the chief captain, and said, "Paul, the prisoner, calling me to him, asked me to bring this young man to you, as he has something to say to you."

²⁹ And Paul said, "I could pray God, that, both in a small degree and in a great degree, not only you, but also all who hear me this day, may become such as I am, except these chains!"

¹⁷ And it came to pass, after three days, that he called together those who were chief men of the Jews; and, when they came together, he said to them, "Brethren, having done nothing contrary to the people, or to our ancestral customs, I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans; ¹⁸ who, indeed, having examined me, were disposed to release me, because there was in me no cause of death. ¹⁹ But, when the Jews spake against it, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar; not that I have anything of which to accuse my nation. ²⁰ For this cause, therefore, I called for you, to see and to speak with you: for, on account of the hope of Israel, I am encompassed with this chain."

¹ Now I, Paul, myself entreat you, through the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in your presence, indeed, am lowly among you; but, being absent, am bold toward you;

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often;

² Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that, if ye be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.

¹¹ But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then the stumbling-block of the cross has been done away!

¹³ Wherefore, I ask that ye faint not at my tribulations in your behalf, which, indeed, is your glory.

¹ I, therefore, the prisoner in the Lord exhort you to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,

²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in chains, that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

⁷ even as it is right for me to think this in behalf of you all; because ye have me in your heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel, all of you being partakers with me of the grace.

¹³ that my bonds became manifest in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to all the rest; ¹⁴ and that the greater part of the brethren, having become confident in the Lord by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word of God without fear. ¹⁵ Some, indeed, preach Christ even because of envy and strife; and some also of good-will; ¹⁶ the one, from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the Gospel;

²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings in your behalf, and fill up in turn the deficiencies of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh for the sake of His body, which is the assembly;

³ at the same time praying for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ (because of which I have also become bound),

¹⁸ The salutation, with my hand, of Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you.

¹⁵ who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men; ¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the gentiles, that they might be saved, for the filling up of their sins always; and the wrath came upon them to the uttermost.

⁸ Be not ashamed, therefore, of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner; but suffer hardship with me for the Gospel, according to the power of God,

¹⁶ The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; because he ofttimes refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain;

⁹ wherein I am suffering hardship, even to bonds, as a malefactor; but the Word of God has not become bound. ¹⁰ Therefore, I suffer all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

¹ Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy, our brother, to Philemon, our beloved and fellow-worker,

⁹ yet for love's sake I rather exhort, being such a one as Paul an aged man, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus:

²³ Epaphras, my fellow-captive in Christ Jesus, salutes you;

¹⁰ Fear not the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the Devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.