Hebrews 2:15

and might set free those who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

In Context

14Since, then, the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also, in like manner, partook of the same, that, through his death, he might deprive of power him that has the power of death, that is, the devil;

16For, verily, he does not take hold of angels, but he takes hold of the posterity of Abraham.

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Cross References

Luke 1:74that he would grant to us, that being delivered from the hands of our enemies, we might serve him without fear,

Romans 8:21in hope, that even the creature itself shall be made free from the bondage of corruption, and introduced into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 2:15-18

Christ's Incarnation. ( a. d. 62.) 14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. 17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be… Read the whole commentary →

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