2 Timothy 2:9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even to bonds; but the word of God is not bound.… The apostle is imprisoned, but his tongue and his companion's pen are free. He can still teach those who come to him; can still dictate letters for others to Luke and the faithful few who visit him. He has been able to influence those whom, but for his imprisonment, he would never have had an opportunity of reaching — Roman soldiers, and warders, and officials, and all who have to take cognisance of his trial before the imperial tribunal. "The Word of God is not bound." While he is in prison Timothy and Titus and scores of other evangelists and preachers are free, Those who are left at large ought to labour all the more energetically and enthusiastically in order to supply whatever is lost by the apostle's want of freedom, and in order to convince the world that this is no contest with a human organisation, or with human opinion, but with a Divine word and a Divine Person. "The Word of God is not bound," because His Word is the truth, and it is the truth that makes men free. How can that of which the very essence is freedom, and of which the attribute is that it confers freedom, be itself kept in bondage? (A. Plummer, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.WEB: in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God's word isn't chained. |
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