Hebrews 2:15

And might release these—as many as, by fear of death, were all their lifetime liable, to bondage.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

14Seeing therefore the children have received a fellowship of blood and flesh, he also, in like manner, took partnership in the same,—in order that, through death,—he might paralyse him that held the dominion of death, that is, the Adversary,—

16For, not surely of messengers, is he laying hold, but, of Abraham’s seed, he is laying hold.

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Cross References

Job 18:14Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors;

Job 33:21His flesh wasteth away out of sight, and bared are the bones once unseen;

Psalms 55:4My heart, would writhe within me, And, the terrors of Death, have fallen upon me:

Psalms 73:19How have they become desolate, as in a moment! They have ceased—come to an end, by reason of calamities.

Luke 1:74without fear, from the hand of enemies rescued, to be rendering divine service unto him,

Romans 8:21That, creation itself also, shall be freed—from the bondage of the decay into the freedom of the glory of the sons 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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