Ephesians Chapter 6 verse 20 Holy Bible

ASV Ephesians 6:20

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
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BBE Ephesians 6:20

For which I am a representative in chains, and that I may say without fear the things which it is right for me to say.
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DARBY Ephesians 6:20

for which I am an ambassador [bound] with a chain, that I may be bold in it as I ought to speak.
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KJV Ephesians 6:20

For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
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WEB Ephesians 6:20

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
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YLT Ephesians 6:20

for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may speak freely -- as it behoveth me to speak.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - For which I am an ambassador in chains. Thereby not only physically helpless, but in danger of being subdued into tameness, the ordinary effect of captivity, and thus reduced to a spirit not befitting the bearer of a great message from the King of kings. That in it - i.e., in the matter of it, of the gospel - I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) In bonds.--Rightly, as in the margin, in a chain. The word is the same which is used in Acts 28:20, "For the hope of Israel I am bound in this chain." It occurs also in Mark 5:4, Luke 8:29, where it is distinguished from a "fetter" properly so called, as binding the feet, and therefore obviously signifies a "manacle" binding the hand. Both are included (see Luke 8:29) in the general word "bonds." The allusion is undoubtedly to the custom of chaining the prisoner by the hand to the soldier who kept him. Thus in Acts 12:6 we read that Peter "was sleeping between two soldiers," and therefore "bound with two manacles;" and in Acts 21:33 that a similar precaution was used on the first apprehension of St. Paul. Here the singular number is probably to be understood literally. St. Paul was free except for the one chain, which the soldier was responsible for holding, and perhaps did not always think it needful to hold. That chain he seems to speak of as the badge of his ambassadorial dignity. To ambassadors, indeed, it belongs to be safe from imprisonment; but it was his greater glory to wear the chain for Christ. . . .