Verse 7

So it is right for me to take thought for you all in this way, because I have you in my heart; for in my chains, and in my arguments before the judges in support of the good news, making clear that it is true, you all have your part with me in grace.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 7:3 : 3 It is not with the purpose of judging you that I say this: for I have said before that you are in our hearts for life and death together.
  • Eph 3:1 : 1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,
  • Acts 20:23 : 23 Only that the Holy Spirit makes clear to me in every town that prison and pains are waiting for me.
  • Eph 6:20 : 20 For which I am a representative in chains, and that I may say without fear the things which it is right for me to say.
  • Phil 1:5 : 5 Because of your help in giving the good news from the first day till now;
  • Phil 1:16-17 : 16 These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news: 17 But those are preaching Christ in a spirit of competition, not from their hearts, but with the purpose of giving me pain in my prison.
  • Phil 4:14 : 14 But you did well to have care for me in my need.
  • Col 4:18 : 18 I, Paul, give you this word of love in my handwriting. Keep in memory that I am a prisoner. Grace be with you.
  • 2 Tim 2:9 : 9 In which I put up with the hardest conditions, even prison chains, like one who has done a crime; but the word of God is not in chains.
  • Heb 3:1 : 1 For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;
  • Heb 6:9-9 : 9 But, my loved ones, though we say this, we are certain that you have better things in you, things which go with salvation; 10 For God is true, and will not put away from him the memory of your work and of your love for his name, in the help which you gave and still give to the saints.
  • Heb 10:33-34 : 33 In part, in being attacked by angry words and cruel acts, before the eyes of everyone, and in part, in being united with those who were attacked in this way. 34 For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.
  • 1 Pet 4:13 : 13 But be glad that you are given a part in the pains of Christ; so that at the revelation of his glory you may have great joy.
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 I who am myself one of the rulers of the church, and a witness of the death of Christ, having my part in the coming glory, send this serious request to the chief men among you:
  • 2 Pet 1:13 : 13 And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory;
  • 1 John 3:14 : 14 We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.
  • Acts 16:23-25 : 23 And when they had given them a great number of blows, they put them in prison, giving orders to the keeper of the prison to keep them safely: 24 And he, having such orders, put them into the inner prison with chains on their feet. 25 But about the middle of the night, Paul and Silas were making prayers and songs to God in the hearing of the prisoners;
  • 1 Thess 1:2-5 : 2 We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers; 3 Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father; 4 Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose; 5 Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.
  • 1 Thess 5:5 : 5 For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.
  • 2 Tim 1:8 : 8 Have no feeling of shame, then, for the witness of our Lord or for me, his prisoner: but undergo all things for the good news in the measure of the power of God;
  • Col 4:3 : 3 And making prayer for us, that God may give us an open door for the preaching of the word, the secret of Christ, for which I am now in chains;
  • Acts 21:33 : 33 Then the chief captain came near and took him, and gave orders for him to be put in chains, questioning them as to who he was and what he had done.
  • 1 Cor 9:23 : 23 And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it.
  • 1 Cor 13:7 : 7 Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.
  • 2 Cor 3:2 : 2 You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;
  • Eph 4:1 : 1 I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.