For this cause, then, I called for you, to see and to speak with you. For I have this chain around me for the hope of Israel.

May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain.

And I saw an angel come down from Heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

And there was much weeping of all, and falling on the neck of Paul, they ardently kissed him,

Now therefore why do you tempt God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples, a yoke which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

But whoever shall offend one of these little ones who believes in Me, it would be better for him that an ass's millstone were hung around his neck, and he be sunk in the depth of the sea.

And whoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in Me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck and he were cast into the sea.

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

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck and he were cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

because he had often been bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nor could anyone subdue him.