So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
Parallel translations
- WEB so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ;
- BSB As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.
- NKJV so that it has become evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my chains are in Christ;
- NASB so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the praetorian guard and to everyone else,
- NLT For everyone here, including the whole palace guard, knows that I am in chains because of Christ.
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Quick answer
Paul's imprisonment for Christ has become known throughout the palace guard and beyond. His chains preach where he cannot freely go.
Overview
Even the elite imperial guard now knows that Paul is imprisoned not as a criminal but "in Christ." His captivity became a testimony, opening doors to those he could never have reached otherwise. The gospel advances even through the constraints of prison.
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Cross-references · 16
- 2 Tim 2:9Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
- Eph 3:1For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
- Phil 1:7Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
- Phil 4:22All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar’s household.
- Eph 6:20For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
- Acts 26:29And 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.
- 1 Pet 4:12–16Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
- Acts 26:31And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
- Acts 21:11–13And when he was come unto us, he took Paul’s girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
- Acts 28:30And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,
- Acts 20:23–24Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
- Acts 28:17And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
- Acts 28:20For 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.
- Col 4:3–18Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
- 1 Th 1:8–9For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
- Eph 4:1I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
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