What Does Colossians 4:18 Mean in the King James?
The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Paul names real chains, yet the verse closes by placing favor with you.
THE MEANING
Your constraints can be named and remembered without defining all that is present with you. The verse holds the bonds in view and still speaks favor over the people reading it now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that being constrained makes you disappear from the community, or that favor can be present only after the constraint is gone.
THE ROOT
δεσμῶν
desmōn
GROWS FROM
δέω
deō
to bind, tie
“bonds” in this verse is desmōn. The root keeps the act of binding visible: a bond can restrict, but the same word family can also describe what joins things together. Here the confinement remains plainly named while the closing favor reaches the readers.
ALSO GROWS
deō: to bind, tie
δέω
The verb beneath “bonds” makes the word describe an act of binding, not just a condition.
desmios: a bound person, prisoner
δέσμιος
The same binding family names the person held by the bonds, keeping Paul’s confinement concrete.
syndesmos: a bond, joining tie
σύνδεσμος
Colossians 3:14 uses this word for love as the bond that holds a community together.
THE PATTERN
A bond can be fully named without containing all that remains present and active.
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.Where in I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.THE THREAD
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.The Greek noun σύνδεσμος (syndesmos, bond or joining tie) in Colossians 3:14 belongs to the same δέω (deō, bind) word family as the bonds named here. The shared root lets a prisoner’s chains and love holding a community together appear as different forms of binding.
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