“in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.”
— WEB
2 Timothy 2:9
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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.”
— KJV
“wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.”
— ASV
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Commentary
Wherein--in proclaiming which Gospel. suffer trouble--literally, "evil." I am a sufferer of evil as though I were a doer of evil. bonds-- (Ti2 1:16). word . . . not bound--Though my person is bound, my tongue and my pen are not (Ti2 4:17; Act 28:31). Or he alludes not merely to his own proclamation of the Gospel, though in chains, but to the freedom of its circulation by others, even though his power of circulating it is now prescribed (Phi 1:18). He also hints to Timothy that he being free ought to be the more earnest in the service of it.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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