so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ;
Parallel translations
- KJV So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
- BSB As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.
- NKJV so that it has become evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my chains are in Christ;
- NASB so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the praetorian guard and to everyone else,
- NLT For everyone here, including the whole palace guard, knows that I am in chains because of Christ.
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Cross-references · 16
- 2 Tim 2:9in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.
- Eph 3:1For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,
- Phil 1:7It 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.
- Phil 4:22All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar’s household.
- Eph 6:20for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
- Acts 26:29Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”
- 1 Pet 4:12–16Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
- Acts 26:31When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”
- Acts 21:11–13Coming to us, and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit: ‘So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”
- Acts 28:30Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who were coming to him,
- Acts 20:23–24except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
- Acts 28:17After three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, “I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,
- Acts 28:20For 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.”
- Col 4:3–18praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds;
- 1 Th 1:8–9For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out; so that we need not to say anything.
- Eph 4:1I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
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