Bible verses about "chains" | EJ2000

¹⁹ What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom ye have of God, and that ye are not your own? ²⁰ For ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

⁸ Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today and for the ages.

² Beloved, now we are the sons of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be; but we know that if he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

¹ ¶ Now I, Paul, myself beseech you by the meekness and clemency of the Christ (who in presence am low among you, but being absent am bold toward you) ² but I beseech you that I need not be bold when I am present with that confidence, with which I am esteemed to use against some who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh. ³ For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh ⁴ (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God for the destruction of strong holds), ⁵ casting down reasonings and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ ⁶ and having a readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. ⁷ ¶ Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If anyone trusts to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that as he is Christ’s, even so we are Christ’s. ⁸ For though I should glory somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I shall not be ashamed, ⁹ That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. ¹⁰ For his letters, they say, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. ¹¹ Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present. ¹² ¶ For we dare not mix ourselves in with or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves, but they do not understand that they are measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves. ¹³ But we will not glory of things beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the rule, of the measure which God has distributed to us, to reach even unto you. ¹⁴ For we do not overextend ourselves by reaching unto you; for we are also come unto you with the gospel of the Christ, ¹⁵ Not glorying of things beyond our measure in the labours of others; but having hope of the increase of your faith, that we shall be abundantly enlarged among you according to our rule, ¹⁶ to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, without entering into the measure {Gr. rule} of another to glory in that which has already been made ready. ¹⁷ But he that glories, let him glory in the Lord. ¹⁸ For it is not he that commends himself that is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

⁶ And the angels who did not keep their first estate but left their own habitation, he has reserved in eternal chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

³ let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us.

¹⁰ ¶ Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and in irons, ¹¹ because they rebelled against the words of God and condemned the counsel of the most High: ¹² Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was no one to help. ¹³ Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. ¹⁴ He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke their bonds asunder.

⁴ And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seems good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seems ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee; where it seems good and convenient for thee to go, go there.

⁴ For if God did not forgive the angels that sinned, but cast them down into the deepest abyss {Gr. Tartarus} and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;