Hebrews Chapter 13 verse 3 Holy Bible
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are illtreated, as being yourselves also in the body.
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Keep in mind those who are in chains, as if you were chained with them, and those who are in trouble, as being yourselves in the body.
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Remember prisoners, as bound with [them]; those that are evil-treated, as being yourselves also in [the] body.
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Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
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Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.
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be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. The Hebrew readers have been also specially commended for their past sympathy with their imprisoned and despoiled brethren (Hebrews 10:33, etc.), having been themselves also at the same time persecuted. Whether or not sufferers themselves now, they must not be forgetful of those that are "As bound with them" seems best taken as expressing the sympathy of one member with another (cf. Hebrews 10:33, 34 and 1 Corinthians 12:26, "If one member suffer," etc.). "As being yourselves," etc., reminds them that they are still in the flesh, and so not only on this account bound to sympathize, but also liable themselves at any time to the like afflictions. Exhortations to personal purity and to contentedness follow next. Of the need, and prominence in the Epistles, of warnings against impurity see what was said on ἁγιασμόν (Hebrews 12:14). St. Paul is given to couple covetousness 'rod uncleanness together in his warnings, as cognate sins, and alike incompatible with the kingdom of God (cf. 1 Corinthians 5:10, 11; 1 Corinthians 6:9, etc.; Ephesians 5:3, 5; Colossians 3:5). Greediness, or inordinate desire (πλεονεξία), may be for sensual indulgence or for wealth - the same word is used in both senses; and such πλεονεξία, whatever its object, is fatal to the spiritual life. So here, after a warning against impurity, comes a like one against covetousness.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) As bound with them.--Either (1) "As if ye yourselves were in bonds" (see Hebrews 10:33-34; 1Corinthians 12:26)--by true fellow-feeling make yourselves sharers in their lot; or, (2) "mindful that ye too are in bonds"--like them ye are Christ's prisoners, and their bonds are but one of the tokens of that service in which all Christians are bound. (Comp. 1Corinthians 7:22.)As being yourselves also in the body.--"Mindful that you, like them, still dwell in a body liable to pain, and may therefore suffer ill-treatment in the cause of Christ."
