2nd Timothy Chapter 2 verse 9 Holy Bible
wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.
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In which I put up with the hardest conditions, even prison chains, like one who has done a crime; but the word of God is not in chains.
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in which I suffer even unto bonds as an evil-doer: but the word of God is not bound.
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Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
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in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God's word isn't chained.
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in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - Hardship for trouble, A.V.; unto for even unto, A.V.; as a malefactor for as an evil doer, A.V.; transposition of clause, unto bonds. Wherein (ἐν ῷ); i.e. in which gospel, in the preaching of which. Suffer hardship (κακοπαθῶ); as ver. 3, T.R. Unto bonds (μέχρι δεσμῶν). So μέχρι θανάτου, Philippians 2:8; μέχρις αἵματος, Hebrews 12:4; but most frequently of time, "until," as Matthew 11:23; Matthew 13:30; Acts 10:30, etc. A malefactor (κακοῦργος); as Luke 23:32, 33, 39; common in classical Greek. Bonds (δεσμῶν); as Acts 26:29; Philippians 1:7, 13, etc.; Colossians 4:18. So St. Paul calls himself δέσμιος, in respect of these bonds (Ephesians 3:1; Ephesians 4:1; 2 Timothy 1:8; Philemon 1:9). The Word of God is not bound. A beautiful reflection of an utterly unselfish mind! The thought of his own bonds, likely soon to be exchanged for the bonds of a martyr's death, awakens the comforting thought, Though they bind me with an iron chain, they cannot bind the gospel. While I am here, shut up in prison, the Word of God, preached by a thousand tongues, is giving life and liberty to myriads of my brethren of the human race. The tyrant can silence my voice and confine it within the walls of my dungeon; but all the while the sound of the gospel is going through all the earth, its saving words to the ends of the world; and I therein rejoice, yea, and will rejoice; and not all the lemons of Rome can take this joy from me."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) Wherein I suffer trouble.--Here St. Paul bids Timothy take courage, by thinking of the brave, patient example he was setting him in his Roman prison, undaunted and full of hope. "Wherein I suffer:" in which, that is, discharging my office as a preacher of the gospel, I suffer trouble.As an evil doer.--Better rendered, as a malefactor: the same word used in St. Luke's Gospel for the two thieves crucified with Jesus Christ (Luke 23:32-33; Luke 23:39).Even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.--A prisoner in chains and, as he tells us further on in the Epistle, expecting death, and yet he still could write and pray and speak from his narrow prison. Surely his disciple, still free, ought to work on with undiminished spirit and zeal. Though St. Paul was in bonds, his sufferings and imprisonment had in no way weakened the power of the gospel.
