Hebrews 2:15
and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
In Context
16for doubtless, He does not lay hold of messengers, but He lays hold of [the] seed of Abraham,
Cross References
Job 18:14His confidence is drawn from his tent, || And it causes him to step to the king of terrors.
Job 33:21His flesh is consumed from being seen, || And his bones are high, they were not seen!
Psalms 55:4My heart is pained within me, || And terrors of death have fallen on me.
Psalms 73:19How they have become a desolation as in a moment, || They have been ended—consumed from terrors.
Luke 1:74To give to us, without fear, || Having been delivered out of the hand of our enemies,
Romans 8:21that also the creation itself will be set free from the servitude of the corruption to 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 →