Ephesians 3:1 Cross References - Haweis

¹ FOR this cause [am] I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

¹² But before all these things, they will lay hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and to prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

³³ Then the tribune approaching him, laid hold on him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains; and asked who he was, and what he had done.

¹⁸ Then he took him, and brought him to the tribune, and said, The prisoner Paul calling me to him, entreated me to bring this young man to thee, having something to say to thee.

²⁹ And Paul replied, would to God, that not only thou, but also that all who are hearing me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these chains.

¹⁷ Now it came to pass that after three days Paul called together the principal persons of the Jews. And when they were assembled, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have done nothing contrary to the people and the customs of our ancestors, yet have I been delivered up a prisoner into the hands of the Romans. ¹⁸ Who, after a full examination, would have discharged me, because there was not the least cause found in me for death. ¹⁹ But when the Jews opposed it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I have any accusation to bring against my countrymen. ²⁰ For this cause therefore have I invited you hither, to see and to converse with you; for on account of the hope of Israel am I bound with this chain.

¹ NOW I Paul myself exhort you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who, when present, am indeed lowly among you, but being absent, am bold towards you.

²³ Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak foolishly) I am above [them]: in labours more abundantly, in stripes exceedingly more, in prisons more frequently, in the most immediate danger of death often.

² Behold, I Paul declare to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ will be of no advantage to you.

¹¹ But I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then indeed the offence of the cross is at an end.

¹³ Wherefore I beseech you, that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

¹ I THEN, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you, that ye walk worthy of the vocation with which ye are called,

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

⁷ as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I bear you on my heart, both in my bonds and in my defence and the confirmation of the gospel, as being all of you sharers in my grace.

¹³ so that my bonds are manifest in Christ through the whole palace, and all other places; ¹⁴ and very many of our brethren in the Lord, assuming confidence from my chains, are more abundantly bold, fearlessly to preach the word. ¹⁵ Some indeed do it in a spirit of envy and strife; but some also preach Christ with cordial good-will: ¹⁶ the one indeed preach Christ out of contention, not with purity of intention, thinking to add affliction to my bonds:

²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh the measure of afflictions for Christ which remains to be endured for his body, which is the church,

³ praying also at the same time for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, that I may speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains:

¹⁸ The salutation of Paul with mine own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you. Amen.

¹⁵ who both murdered the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are in opposition to all mankind; ¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles, that they might be saved, to fill up the measure of their iniquities always: but wrath is coming upon them to the extremity.

⁸ Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer affliction with me in the gospel, supported by the power of God;

¹⁶ The Lord grant mercy unto the household of Onesiphorus because he frequently was a refreshment to my soul, and was not ashamed of my chain:

⁹ for which I suffer affliction, even unto chains as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound. ¹⁰ Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Jesus Christ with eternal glory.

¹ PAUL, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy a brother, to Philemon the beloved, and our fellow-labourer,

⁹ I rather for love's sake entreat, being such as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner for Jesus Christ.

²³ There salute thee Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus;

¹⁰ Fear nothing from the things which thou shalt suffer: lo! the devil will cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have a ten day's tribulation: be thou faithful until death, and I will give thee a crown of life.