Hebrews 2:15

And might deliver them, who through the fear of death were all their lifetime subject to servitude.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

14Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil:

16For no where doth he take hold of the angels: but of the seed of Abraham he taketh hold.

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Cross References

Job 18:14Let his confidence be rooted out of his tabernacle, and let destruction tread upon him like a king.

Job 33:21His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare.

Psalms 55:4be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled,

Psalms 73:19How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.

Luke 1:74That being delivered from the hand of our enemies, we may serve him without fear,

Romans 8:21Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory 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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