Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
Wherein - In proclaiming which Gospel.
I suffer trouble - `evil.' I am a sufferer of evil as though I were a doer of evil.
Bonds (2 Timothy 1:16).
Word of God is not bound. Though my person is bound, my tongue and pen are not (2 Timothy 4:17; Acts 21:13; Acts 28:31). Rather, he includes the freedom of the circulation of the Gospel by others (Philippians 1:12). He also hints that Timothy, being free, ought to be the more earnest in circulating it.