2 Timothy 2:9 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁹ wherein I suffer trouble, as an evildoer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ For that [Gospel] I am suffering affliction and even wearing chains like a criminal. But the Word of God is not chained or imprisoned!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.

Common English Bible

⁹ This is the reason I’m suffering to the point that I’m in prison like a common criminal. But God’s word cannot be imprisoned.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ I labor in this Gospel, even while chained like an evildoer. But the Word of God is not bound.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Wherein I labour even unto bands, as an evildoer; but the word of God is not bound.

2 Timothy 2:9 Cross References

Luke 23:32

And there were also two others, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.

Acts 21:33

Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.

Acts 28:31

preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.

Acts 9:16

for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.

Ephesians 3:1

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

Philippians 1:17

but the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel.

Philippians 1:7

even 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 defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.

Colossians 4:18

The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

Colossians 4:3

withal 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 Thessalonians 1:8

For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedo´nia and Achai´a, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

2 Thessalonians 3:1

Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:

2 Timothy 1:12

For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

2 Timothy 1:16

The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiph´orus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:

2 Timothy 1:8

Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

2 Timothy 2:3

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

2 Timothy 4:17

Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

1 Peter 2:12

having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Peter 2:14

or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

1 Peter 3:16

having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

1 Peter 4:15

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.