Mark 5:4 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁴ because he often had been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the shackles had been broken, and no one was able to subdue him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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

⁴ 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)

⁴ 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

⁴ 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

⁴ 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

⁴ 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

who had his dwelling among the tombs. And no one could bind him, not even with chains,

Mark 5:5

And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and bruising himself with stones.

Luke 8:29

For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out from the man. For it had seized him at times, and he was bound, kept under guard, with chains and shackles; and he broke the bonds and was driven by the demon into the wilderness.