Ephesians 6:20
Good News Translation
For the sake of this gospel I am an ambassador, though now I am in prison. Pray that I may be bold in speaking about the gospel as I should.

New Revised Standard Version
for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it boldly, as I must speak.

Contemporary English Version
I was sent to do this work, and this is the reason I am in jail. So pray that I will be brave and will speak as I should.

New American Bible
for which I am an ambassador in chains, so that I may have the courage to speak as I must.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For which I am an ambassador in a chain: so that therein I may be bold to speak according as I ought.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For which I am an ambassador in a chain: so that therein I may be bold to speak according as I ought.

I am.

Proverbs 13:17 The messenger of the wicked shall fall into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.

Isaiah 33:7 Behold they that see shall cry without, the angels of peace shall weep bitterly.

2 Corinthians 5:20 For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting by us, for Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God.

bonds.

Ephesians 3:1 For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, for you Gentiles:

Ephesians 4:1 I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called:

2 Samuel 10:2-6 And David said: I will shew kindness to Hanon the son of Daas, as his father shewed kindness to me. So David sent his servants to comfort him for the death of his father. But when the servants of David were come into the land of the children of Ammon, . . .

Acts 26:29 And Paul said: I would to God that both in a little and in much, not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, should become such as I also am, except these bands.

Acts 28:20 For this cause therefore I desired to see you and to speak to you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain.

Philippians 1:7,13,14 As it is meet for me to think this for you all, for that I have you in my heart; and that, in my bands and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my joy. . . .

2 Timothy 1:16 The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus: because he hath often refreshed me and hath not been ashamed of my chain:

2 Timothy 2:9 Wherein I labour even unto bands, as an evildoer. But the word of God is not bound.

Philemon 1:10 I beseech thee for my son, whom I have begotten in my bands, Onesimus,

therein.

Ephesians 6:19 And for me, that speech may be given me, that I may open my mouth with confidence, to make known the mystery of the gospel,

Isaiah 58:1 Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins.

Jeremiah 1:7,8,17 And the Lord said to me: Say not: I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee: and whatsoever I shall command thee, thou shalt speak. . . .

Ezekiel 2:4-7 And they to whom I send thee are children of a hard face, and of an obstinate heart: and thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: . . .

Matthew 10:27,28 That which I tell you in the dark, speak ye in the light: and that which you hear in the ear, preach ye upon the housetops. . . .

Acts 5:29 But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God rather than men.

Acts 28:31 Preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, without prohibition.

Colossians 4:4 That I may make it manifest as I ought to speak.

Philippians 1:20 According to my expectation and hope; that in nothing I shall be confounded: but with all confidence, as always, so now also, shall Christ be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death.

1 Thessalonians 2:2 But having suffered many things before and been shamefully treated, (as you know) at Philippi, we had confidence in our God, to speak unto you the gospel of God in much carefulness.

1 John 3:16 In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Jude 1:3 Dearly beloved, taking all care to write unto you concerning your common salvation, I was under a necessity to write unto you: to beseech you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

Context
The Armor of God
19And for me, that speech may be given me, that I may open my mouth with confidence, to make known the mystery of the gospel, 20For which I am an ambassador in a chain: so that therein I may be bold to speak according as I ought. 21But that you also may know the things that concern me and what I am doing, Tychicus, my dearest brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make known to you all things:…
Cross References
Jeremiah 40:1
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after that Nabuzardan the general had let him go from Rama, when he had taken him, being bound with chains, among all them that were carried away from Jerusalem and Juda, and were carried to Babylon.

Acts 21:33
Then the tribune, coming near, took him and commanded him to be bound with two chains: and demanded who he was and what he had done.

Acts 28:20
For this cause therefore I desired to see you and to speak to you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain.

2 Corinthians 3:12
Having therefore such hope, we use much confidence.

2 Corinthians 5:20
For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting by us, for Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God.

Ephesians 3:1
For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, for you Gentiles:

Philippians 1:7
As it is meet for me to think this for you all, for that I have you in my heart; and that, in my bands and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my joy.

Colossians 4:3
Praying withal for us also, that God may open unto us a door of speech to speak the mystery of Christ (for which also I am bound):

Colossians 4:4
That I may make it manifest as I ought to speak.

2 Timothy 1:16
The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus: because he hath often refreshed me and hath not been ashamed of my chain:

Philemon 1:9
For charity sake I rather beseech, whereas thou art such a one, as Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also of Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 6:19
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