And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Parallel translations
- WEB and might deliver all of 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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Christ's death frees those who lived their whole lives enslaved by the fear of death. The gospel delivers from death's terror.
Overview
The result of Christ's victory is liberation for those held captive by the dread of dying. What once bound people in lifelong fear is overcome by the one who tasted death for them and rose. This deliverance is a precious fruit of the cross, granting believers freedom and hope in the face of death.
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- Rom 8:15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
- 2 Tim 1:7For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
- Luke 1:74–75That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
- 2 Cor 1:10Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
- Ps 55:4My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
- Rom 8:21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
- 1 Cor 15:50–57Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
- Ps 89:48What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
- Ps 56:13For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
- Job 33:21–28His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
- Job 24:17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
- Ps 33:19To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
- Job 18:11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
- Ps 73:19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
- Job 18:14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
- Gal 4:21Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
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