Not even with a chain could any man bind him, for he had been bound with fetters and chains again and again, and had snapped the chains, and broken the fetters; and there was no one strong enough to master him.

The Lord show mercy to the house hold of Onesiphorus; for many a time he refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain.

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, with the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

This is the reason why I begged you to see and speak with me. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain."

"But whoever shall cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung about his neck, and he were drowned in the depths of the sea.

"And if any one shall cause one of these little ones who believe on me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown out into the sea with a great millstone about his neck.

"So he arose and went to his father; but while he was yet a great way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

"It were well for him if a millstone were tied about his neck, and he were hurled into the sea, rather than he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

And they all began, with loud lamentations, to throw their arms about his neck, and to kiss him lovingly, again and again,

I, Paul, add this farewell in my own handwriting. Do not forget these chains of mine. Grace be with you.

and in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it boldly as I ought to speak.

Throughout the whole Praetorian guard and among all the others it has become plain that these chains of mine are for the sake of Christ;

I beseech you for my son, Onesimus, whom I have begotten in these chains.

For preaching it I am suffering, and am even put in chains as a malefactor.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to chains of darkness, and reserved them for judgment;

Others again bore trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, even of chains and imprisonment.

while the angels who did not keep their first domain but left their proper abode, are held by him in blank darkness, in everlasting chains, in preparation for the judgment of the Great Day.