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Hebrews 13:3

remember those that are in chains, as if you were confin'd with them; and those who suffer adversity, as being your selves of the same body.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Commandments;   Love;   Neighbor;   Poor;   Thompson Chain Reference - Social Duties;   Sympathy;   Sympathy-Pitilessness;   The Topic Concordance - Burden;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflicted, Duty toward the;   Compassion and Sympathy;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hospitality;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Beneficence;   Discontent;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hebrews, the Epistle to the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hebrews;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Fellowship (2);   Hebrews Epistle to the;   Suffering;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adversity;   Suffering;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Don't forget those who are in prison. Remember them as though you were in prison with them. And don't forget those who are suffering. Remember them as though you were suffering with them.
Revised Standard Version
Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you also are in the body.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Remember them that are in bondes even as though ye were bounde with them. Be myndfull of them which are in adversitie as ye which are yet in youre bodies.
Hebrew Names Version
Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.
New American Standard Bible
Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are badly treated, since you yourselves also are in the body.
New Century Version
Remember those who are in prison as if you were in prison with them. Remember those who are suffering as if you were suffering with them.
Update Bible Version
Remember those that are in bonds, as bound with them; those that are illtreated, as being yourselves also in the body.
Webster's Bible Translation
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; [and] them who suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
English Standard Version
Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.
World English Bible
Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Remember them that are in bonds, as being bound with them, and them that suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
Weymouth's New Testament
Remember prisoners, as if you were in prison with them; and remember those suffering ill-treatment, for you yourselves also are still in the body.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thenke ye on boundun men, as ye weren togidere boundun, and of trauelinge men, as ye silf dwellinge in the body.
English Revised Version
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are evil entreated, as being yourselves also in the body.
Berean Standard Bible
Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.
Contemporary English Version
Remember the Lord's people who are in jail and be concerned for them. Don't forget those who are suffering, but imagine that you are there with them.
Amplified Bible
Remember those who are in prison, as if you were their fellow prisoner, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body [and subject to physical suffering].
American Standard Version
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
Remember those in prison and being mistreated, as if you were in prison with them and undergoing their torture yourselves.
Darby Translation
Remember prisoners, as bound with [them]; those that are evil-treated, as being yourselves also in [the] body.
International Standard Version
Continue to remember those in prison as if you were in prison with them, as well as those who are mistreated, since they also are only mortal.are in the body">[fn]Matthew 25:36; Romans 12:15; 1 Corinthians 12:26; Colossians 4:18; 1 Peter 3:8;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
Remember those who are bound, as if with them ye were bound: be mindful of those who are afflicted, as men (should) who are clothed with flesh.
Murdock Translation
And remember those in bonds, as if ye were bound with them: and recollect those in affliction, as being yourselves clothed in flesh.
King James Version (1611)
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer aduersitie, as being your selues also in the body.
New Living Translation
Remember those in prison, as if you were there yourself. Remember also those being mistreated, as if you felt their pain in your own bodies.
New Life Bible
Remember those in prison. Think of them as if you were in prison with them. Remember those who are suffering because of what others have done to them. You may suffer in the same way.
New Revised Standard
Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Remember them that are in bondes, as though ye were bounde with them: and them that are in affliction, as if ye were also afflicted in the body.
George Lamsa Translation
Remember those who are in prison, as though you were a prisoner with them; remember those who suffer adversity, for you are human also.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Bear in mind them who are in bonds, as having become jointly bound, - them who are suffering ill-treatment, as being yourselves also in the body.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them: and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Remember them that are in bondes, as bounde with them: And them which suffer aduersitie, as also ye your selues beyng in the body [suffered aduersitie].
Good News Translation
Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them. Remember those who are suffering, as though you were suffering as they are.
Christian Standard Bible®
Remember those in prison, as though you were in prison with them, and the mistreated, as though you yourselves were suffering bodily.
King James Version
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
Lexham English Bible
Remember the prisoners, as though you were fellow-prisoners; remember the mistreated, as though you yourselves also are being mistreated in the body.
Literal Translation
Be mindful of the prisoners, as having been bound with them ; of those ill-treated, as also being in the body yourselves.
Young's Literal Translation
be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Remembre them that are in bondes, eue as though ye were bounde with them: and be myndefull off them which are in aduersite, as ye which are also in the bodye.
New English Translation
Remember those in prison as though you were in prison with them, and those ill-treated as though you too felt their torment.
New King James Version
Remember the prisoners as if chained with them--those who are mistreated--since you yourselves are in the body also.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Don't forget those who've been thrown into prison. Pray for them as if you were right there with 'em. Don't forget those who are riding the roughest trails. Remember them as if you were suffering right alongside them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you yourselves also are in the body.
Legacy Standard Bible
Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you yourselves also are in the body.

Contextual Overview

1 Let brotherly love still reign. 2 be not unmindful of hospitality: for thereby some have unknowingly entertained angels. 3 remember those that are in chains, as if you were confin'd with them; and those who suffer adversity, as being your selves of the same body. 4 Marriage is every where honourable, and that state is innocent: but the licentious and adulterers God will punish. 5 let your morals be free from avarice, being contented with what you have: for he hath said, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." 6 so that we may boldly say, " the Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me." 7 Remember those who have the rule over you, who have preach'd to you the word of God: imitate their faith; consider their conduct, and the exit they made. 8 Jesus Christ is always the same, yesterday, to-day, and for ever. be not then misled by artful, novel doctrines: 9 for the mind is better improv'd by the gospel-dispensation, than by the distinctions about meats, in which some have been so uselesly vers'd. 10 We have a victim, whereof they, who still serve at the tabernacle, have no more right to eat,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

them that: Hebrews 10:34, Genesis 40:14, Genesis 40:15, Genesis 40:23, Jeremiah 38:7-13, Matthew 25:36, Matthew 25:43, Acts 16:29-34, Acts 24:23, Acts 27:3, Ephesians 4:1, Philippians 4:14-19, Colossians 4:18, 2 Timothy 1:16-18

which suffer: Nehemiah 1:3, Nehemiah 1:4, Romans 12:15, 1 Corinthians 12:26, Galatians 6:1, Galatians 6:2, 1 Peter 3:8

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 11:4 - lifted up 2 Samuel 19:24 - dressed his feet Job 2:11 - to come Job 6:14 - To him Job 19:21 - have pity Job 42:11 - they bemoaned Ecclesiastes 11:2 - for Isaiah 58:7 - bring Matthew 18:31 - they Matthew 27:2 - bound Acts 12:5 - prayer was made without ceasing Acts 20:35 - how that Acts 28:15 - when Philippians 2:7 - made 1 Thessalonians 3:6 - and that 1 Thessalonians 5:14 - be Hebrews 10:24 - consider 2 Peter 1:13 - as long

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Remember them that are in bonds,.... Not for criminal actions, or for debt, though such should be remembered, and pity showed them, especially the latter; but such as are in bonds for the sake of Christ, and the Gospel. This has been often the lot of God's people, who should be remembered, by praying for them, sending comfortable letters to them, personally visiting them, and relieving them under their distresses:

as bound with them; as if it were so, as if in the same condition, and circumstances; by sympathizing with them; by considering themselves liable to the same bonds; by dealing with them as it would be desirable to be dealt with in the same case: and

them which suffer adversity; outward afflictions of body, distress for want of temporal mercies, food and raiment, and persecution by enemies; or spiritual adversity, as the prevailings of corruptions, and particularly unbelief, the hidings of God's face, and the temptations of Satan.

As being yourselves also in the body; as if in their bodies, enduring the same things; or as being afflicted in the body with diseases, necessities, and persecutions; or as being in the body, the church, of which these afflicted ones are a part, and therefore should have a fellow feeling with them; or rather as being in this world, in the flesh, or in a body and state subject to the like adversities, temporal and spiritual.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Remember them that are in bonds - All who are “bound;” whether prisoners of war; captives in dungeons; those detained in custody for trial; those who are imprisoned for righteousness’ sake, or those held in slavery. The word used here will include all instances where “bonds, shackles, chains were ever used.” Perhaps there is an immediate allusion to their fellow-Christians who were suffering imprisonment on account of their religion, of whom there were doubtless many at that time, but the “principle” will apply to every case of those who are imprisoned or oppressed. The word “remember” implies more than that we are merely to “think” of them; compare Exodus 20:8; Ecclesiastes 12:1. It means that we are to remember them “with appropriate sympathy;” or as we should wish others to remember us if we were in their circumstances. That is, we are

(1)To feel deep compassion for them;

(2)We are to remember them in our prayers;

(3)We are to remember them, as far as practicable, with aid for their relief.

Christianity teaches us to sympathize with all the oppressed, the suffering, and the sad; and there are more of this class than we commonly suppose, and they have stronger claims on our sympathy than we commonly realize. In America there are not far from ten thousand confined in prison - the father separated from his children; the husband from his wife; the brother from his sister; and all cut off from the living world. Their fare is coarse, and their couches hard, and the ties which bound them to the living world are rudely snapped asunder. Many of them are in solitary dungeons; all of them are sad and melancholy men. True, they are there for crime; but they are men - they are our brothers. They have still the feelings of our common humanity, and many of them feel their separation from wife, and children, and home, as keenly as we would.

That God who has mercifully made our lot different from theirs, has commanded us to sympathize with them - and we should sympathize all the more when we remember that but for his restraining grace we should have been in the same condition. There are in this land of “liberty” also nearly three millions who are held in the hard bondage of slavery. There is the father, the mother, the child, the brother, the sister. They are held as property; liable to be sold; having no right to the avails of their own labor; exposed to the danger of having the tenderest ties sundered at the will of their master; shut out from the privilege of reading the Word of God; fed on coarse fare; living in wretched hovels; and often subjected to the painful inflictions of the lash at the caprice of a passionate driver. Wives and daughters are made the victims of degrading sensuality without the power of resistance or redress; the security of home is unknown; and they are dependent on the will of another man whether they shall or shall not worship their Creator. We should remember them, and sympathize with them as if they were our fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, or sons and daughters.

Though of different colour, yet the same blood flows in their veins as in ours Acts 17:26; they are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. By nature they have the same right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” which we and our children have, and to deprive them of that right is as unjust as it would be to deprive us and ours of it. They have a claim on our sympathy, for they are our brethren. They need it, for they are poor and helpless. They should have it, for the same God who has kept us from that hard lot has commanded us to remember them. That kind remembrance of them should be shown in every practicable way. By prayer; by plans contemplating their freedom; by efforts to send them the gospel; by diffusing abroad the principles of liberty and of the rights of man, by using our influence to arouse the public mind in their behalf, we should endeavor to relieve those who are in bonds, and to hasten the time when “the oppressed shall go free.” On this subject, see the notes on Isaiah 58:6.

As bound with them - There is great force and beauty in this expression. Religion teaches us to identify ourselves with all who are oppressed, and to feel what they suffer as if we endured it ourselves. Infidelity and atheism are cold and distant. They stand aloof from the oppressed and the sad. But Christianity unites all hearts in one; binds us to all the race, and reveals to us in the case of each one oppressed and injured, a brother.

And them which suffer adversity - The word used here refers properly to those who are maltreated, or who are injured by others. It does not properly refer to those who merely experience calamity.

As being ourselves also in the body - As being yourselves exposed to persecution and suffering, and liable to be injured. That is, do to them as you would wish them to do to you if you were the sufferer. When we see an oppressed and injured man, we should remember that it is possible that we may be in the same circumstances, and that then we shall need and desire the sympathy of others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hebrews 13:3. Remember them that are in bonds — He appears to refer to those Christian's who were suffering imprisonment for the testimony of Jesus.

As bound with them — Feel for them as you would wish others to feel for you were you in their circumstances, knowing that, being in the body, you are liable to the same evils, and may be called to suffer in the same way for the same cause.


 
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