Study Desk

Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel,

But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;

so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the praetorian guard and to everyone else,

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

and that most of the brothers and sisters, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, have far more courage to speak the word of God without fear.

And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.