Ephesians Chapter 3 verse 13 Holy Bible

ASV Ephesians 3:13

Wherefore I ask that ye may not faint at my tribulations for you, which are your glory.
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BBE Ephesians 3:13

For this reason it is my prayer that you may not become feeble because of my troubles for you, which are your glory.
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DARBY Ephesians 3:13

Wherefore I beseech [you] not to faint through my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
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KJV Ephesians 3:13

Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
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WBT Ephesians 3:13


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WEB Ephesians 3:13

Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
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YLT Ephesians 3:13

wherefore, I ask `you' not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - Wherefore I beg that ye faint not at my tribulations for you. A very delicate and touching request, that they would not be too much distressed by what he was suffering for them (comp. Epaphroditus, Philippians 2:26). Paul knew that the sympathy was so strong that what was suffered by him was endured sympathetically by them. Two expressions denote that the sufferings were great: "My tribulations for you" - a word expressing intense and protracted suffering; "that ye faint not," or that ye do not lose heart, as if the power of evil had got the upper hand. Which is your glory. That is, the character or capacity of the apostle of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, in which I suffer tribulation, is one of such exalted dignity as to reflect glory on you. Take that view of my sufferings; I suffer because I hold so glorious an office, and the glory of that office is reflected on you.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) Wherefore I desire . . .--The verse is parenthetical--a reflection suggested by the greatness of the trust and the littleness of the minister dwelt upon in Ephesians 3:8-12, and inserted as a warning to the Ephesians not to be disheartened at the present "tribulation" of his imprisonment, as if it were a failure of his mission. (See this idea more fully worked out in Philippians 1:12-29.) "To faint" (as in 2Corinthians 4:1; 2Corinthians 4:16; Galatians 6:9; 2Thessalonians 3:13) is "to play the coward," as "thinking it (see 1Peter 4:12-13) a strange thing" that trouble should fall on him or them. It might well seem strange, when for four years at least, at Caesarea and Rome, the marvellous activity of St. Paul's Apostolic career was apparently cut short. . . .