20For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
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Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-24)Here, I. He desires their prayers for him, Eph. 6:19. Having mentioned supplication for all saints , he puts himself into the number. We must pray for all saints, and particularly for God’s faithful ministers. Brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified . Observe what it is he would have them pray for in his behalf: “ That utterance may be given unto me ; that I may b…
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