Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key of the abyss and a great chain.

who lived among the tombs; and no one could bind him any more, not even with a chain,

For this reason therefore I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain."

"But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

"Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea.

And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion for him, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.

Now therefore why do you test God by putting upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

for which I am suffering even to the point of wearing chains like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained.

for he had often been bound with shackles and chains. But the chains he wrenched apart, and the shackles he broke in pieces; and no one had the strength to subdue him.