Philippians 1:13 As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.

English Standard Version
so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ.

New American Standard Bible
so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else,

King James Bible
So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard, and to everyone else, that my imprisonment is in the cause of Christ.

International Standard Version
As a result, it has become clear to the whole imperial guard and to everyone else that I am in prison for preaching about the Messiah.

American Standard Version
so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;

Douay-Rheims Bible
So that my bands are made manifest in Christ, in all the court, and in all other places;

Darby Bible Translation
so that my bonds have become manifest as being in Christ in all the praetorium and to all others;

Young's Literal Translation
so that my bonds have become manifest in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to the other places -- all,

Cross References

Acts 28:30
And Paul dwelled two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in to him,

Philippians 1:7
Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my grace.

Philippians 1:30
Having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

2 Timothy 2:9
Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even to bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

1:12-20 The apostle was a prisoner at Rome; and to take off the offence of the cross, he shows the wisdom and goodness of God in his sufferings. These things made him known, where he would never have otherwise been known; and led some to inquire after the gospel. He suffered from false friends, as well as from enemies. How wretched the temper of those who preached Christ out of envy and contention, and to add affliction to the bonds that oppressed this best of men! The apostle was easy in the midst of all. Since our troubles may tend to the good of many, we ought to rejoice. Whatever turns to our salvation, is by the Spirit of Christ; and prayer is the appointed means of seeking for it. Our earnest expectation and hope should not be to be honoured of men, or to escape the cross, but to be upheld amidst temptation, contempt, and affliction. Let us leave it to Christ, which way he will make us serviceable to his glory, whether by labour or suffering, by diligence or patience, by living to his honour in working for him, or dying to his honour in suffering for him.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

13. my bonds in Christ—rather as Greek, "So that my bonds have become manifest in Christ," that is, known, as endured in Christ's cause.

palace—literally, "Prætorium," that is, the barrack of the Prætorian guards attached to the palace of Nero, on the Palatine hill at Rome; not the general Prætorian camp outside of the city; for this was not connected with "Cæsar's household," which Php 4:22 shows the Prætorium here meant was. The emperor was "Prætor," or Commander-in-Chief; naturally then the barrack of his bodyguard was called the Prætorium. Paul seems now not to have been at large in his own hired house, though chained to a soldier, as in Ac 28:16, 20, 30, 31, but in strict custody in the Prætorium; a change which probably took place on Tigellinus becoming Prætorian Prefect. See [2379]Introduction.

in all other places—so Chrysostom. Or else, "TO all the rest," that is, "manifest to all the other" Prætorian soldiers stationed elsewhere, through the instrumentality of the Prætorian household guards who might for the time be attached to the emperor's palace, and who relieved one another in succession. Paul had been now upwards of two years a prisoner, so that there was time for his cause and the Gospel having become widely known at Rome.