and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Parallel translations
- KJV And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
- BSB and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
- NKJV and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
- NASB and free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.
- NLT Only in this way could he set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.
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- Rom 8:15For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
- 2 Tim 1:7For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
- Luke 1:74–75to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,
- 2 Cor 1:10who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
- Ps 55:4My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.
- Rom 8:21that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
- 1 Cor 15:50–57Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.
- Ps 89:48What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
- Ps 56:13For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
- Job 33:21–28His flesh is so consumed away, that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.
- Job 24:17For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
- Ps 33:19to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.
- Job 18:11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.
- Ps 73:19How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
- Job 18:14He shall be rooted out of the security of his tent. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.
- Gal 4:21Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?
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