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For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see [you], and to speak with [you]: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

For {G1223} this {G5026} cause {G156} therefore {G3767} have I called {G3870} for you {G5209}, to see {G1492} you, and {G2532} to speak with {G4354} you: because that {G1752} for {G1063} the hope {G1680} of Israel {G2474} I am bound with {G4029} this {G5026} chain {G254}.

This is why I have asked to see you and speak with you, for it is because of the hope of Isra’el that I have this chain around me.”

So for this reason I have called to see you and speak with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”

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.

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Cross-References

  • Ephesians 6:20 (6 votes)

    For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

  • Acts 26:6 (6 votes)

    And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:

  • Acts 26:7 (6 votes)

    Unto which [promise] our twelve tribes, instantly serving [God] day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.

  • 2 Timothy 2:9 (6 votes)

    Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, [even] unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

  • Acts 26:29 (5 votes)

    And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.

  • Philippians 1:13 (5 votes)

    So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other [places];

  • Acts 24:15 (3 votes)

    And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.