Mark 5:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

because he often had been bound with shackles and chains, but had torn the chains apart and smashed  the shackles. No one was strong enough to subdue  him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For he had been bound often with shackles for the feet and handcuffs, but the handcuffs of [light] chains he wrenched apart, and the shackles he rubbed and ground together and broke in pieces; and no one had strength enough to restrain or tame him.

American Standard Version (1901)

because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been rent asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: and no man had strength to tame him.

Common English Bible

He had been secured many times with leg irons and chains, but he broke the chains and smashed the leg irons. No one was tough enough to control him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For having been bound often with shackles and chains, he had broken the chains and smashed the shackles; and no one had been able to tame him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst the chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him.

Mark 5:4 Cross References

Mark 5:3

He lived in the tombs,  and no one was able to restrain him any more #– #not even with a chain   #– #

Mark 5:5

Night  and day among the tombs  and on the mountains,  he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.

Luke 8:29

For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was guarded, bound by chains and shackles, he would snap the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.