²⁰ For this cause therefore did I entreat you to see and to speak with `me': for because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

²⁹ And Paul `said', I would to God, that whether with little or with much, not thou only, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except these bonds.

⁶ And now I stand `here' to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers;

⁷ unto which `promise' our twelve tribes, earnestly serving `God' night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, O king!

⁶ But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees: touching the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

³³ Then the chief captain came near, and laid hold on him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and inquired who he was, and what he had done.

¹³ whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

¹⁰ I beseech thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,

⁹ wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.

¹⁰ but hath now been manifested by the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,

¹⁸ The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you.

¹³ so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;

¹ I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,

¹ For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,--

¹⁷ And it came to pass, that after three days he called together those that were the chief of the Jews: and when they were come together, he said unto them, I, brethren, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, yet was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans:

¹⁵ having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection both of the just and unjust.

³³ Forthwith therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God, to hear all things that have been commanded thee of the Lord.

²⁹ wherefore also I came without gainsaying, when I was sent for. I ask therefore with what intent ye sent for me.