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  • Ephesians 6:20
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 20 for which I am acting as an ambassador+ in chains, and that I may speak about it with boldness, as I ought to speak.

  • Ephesians 6:20
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 20 ὑπὲρ over οὗ which πρεσβεύω I am ambassador ἐν in ἁλύσει, chain, ἵνα in order that ἐν in αὐτῷ it παρρησιάσωμαι I might be outspoken ὡς as δεῖ it is binding με me λαλῆσαι. to speak.

  • Ephesians 6:20
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 20 for which I am acting as an ambassador+ in chains; that I may speak in connection with it with boldness* as I ought to speak.+

  • Ephesians 6:20
    The Bible in Living English
    • 20* for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may speak it out as I ought.

  • Ephesians 6:20
    American Standard Version
    • 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

  • Ephesians 6:20
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 20 In behalf of which I am conducting an embassy in chains That therein I may use freedom of utterance as it is needful for me to speak.

  • Ephesians 6:20
    King James Version
    • 20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

  • Ephesians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2022
    • 6:20 it-1 88-89

  • Ephesians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 6:20 w76 750; ad 63; li 307

  • Ephesians
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 6:20

      Insight, Volume 1, pp. 88-89

      The Watchtower,

      12/15/1976, p. 750

  • Ephesians Study Notes—Chapter 6
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 6:20

      I am acting as an ambassador in chains: Paul wrote this letter to the Ephesians when he was imprisoned in Rome, which explains why he called himself “an ambassador in chains.” (Eph 3:1; 4:1) In Biblical usage, an ambassador is an official representative dispatched by a ruler on a special occasion for a specific purpose. As one of God’s spirit-anointed ambassadors, Paul bore a message to the people of his day about being reconciled to God through Christ.​—See the study notes on 2Co 5:20.

      I may speak . . . with boldness: Or “I may speak . . . with freeness of speech.” Paul was a prisoner in Rome, and here he asks his fellow believers to pray for him so that he “may speak . . . with boldness [a form of the Greek verb par·re·si·aʹzo·mai].” (Eph 6:19) The account in Acts reveals that while imprisoned, Paul continued preaching the Kingdom of God “with the greatest freeness of speech [a form of the related Greek noun par·re·siʹa], without hindrance,” indicating that the prayers made in his behalf had been answered. (Ac 28:30, 31) Boldness was an identifying mark of the preaching done by the early Christians.​—Ac 4:13, 29; see study note on Ac 28:31.

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